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Veils, Nudity, and Tattoos: The New Feminine Aesthetics inaugurates a new approach toward the history and usage of nudity, veiling, and tattoos. By taking an unorthodox approach towards three phenomena that have changed considerably during the past thirty years, this book reveals through conceptual analysis that the three are both private and public, humiliating and empowering, and backward and progressive, and can ultimately be traced by similar social and psychological patterns.

Title Veils, nudity, and tattoos : the new feminine aesthetic / Thorsten Botz-Bornstein.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Lanham : Lexington Books
Creation Date [2015]
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Veils and sunglasses -- Veiling and third wave feminism : playing with fire -- Can the veil be cool? -- Respect and shame : Sarah Kofman on veiling -- Cool space : segregation and veiling -- Tattoos, nudity, veils -- From the stigmatized tattoo to the graffitied body : femininity in the tattoo renaissance -- Nudity and tattoos from naturism to suicide girls -- Veils and viagra : a double victory?.
Extent 1 online resource (214 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2015
National Library system number 997010718256905171
MARC RECORDS
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