In the Flesh The Cultural Politics of Body Modification

Through an interview-based study, Victoria Pitts has researched the subcultural milieu of contemporary body modification, focusing on the ways sexuality, gender and ethnicity are being reconfigured through new body technologies - not only tattooing, but p

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The Cultural Politics of Body Modification

VICTORIA L. PITTS

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IN THE FLESH

IN THE FLESH

Copyright © Victoria L. Pitts, 2003. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. First published in 2003 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN™ 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 and Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England RG21 6XS. Companies and representatives throughout the world. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. 0-312-29310-0 hardback 0-312-9311-9 paperback Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Available from the Library of Congress A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. First Palgrave Macmillan edition: May 2003 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America.

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For Joe

Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2

Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Conclusion

Bodies of Power: New Body Art Technologies

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1

Subversive Bodies, Invented Selves: Theorizing Body Politics

23

Reclaiming the Female Body: Women Body Modifiers and Feminist Debates

49

Visibly Queer: Body Technologies and Sexual Politics

87

Modern Primitivism and the Deployment of the Other

119

Cyberpunk, Biomedicine, and the High-Tech Body

151

Reading the Postmodern Techno-Body

185

Notes Bibliography Index

199 225 235

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CONTENTS

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THIS PROJECT COULD NOT HAVE BEEN COMPLETED WITHOUT THE generous assistance of many people. Foremost among these are, of course, the women and men who agreed to share their “body-stories” with me, to whom I am very grateful. I would also like to thank the Brandeis University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, which awarded me a dissertation fellowship during the early stages of this project. Later, the Research Foundation of the City University of New York awarded me a PSC-CUNY award that helped me in the final stages of the project. At Brandeis University, I would like to thank