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Mifflin notes that women's interest in tattoo surged in the suffragist '20s and the feminist '70s. She chronicles: Breast cancer survivors of the '90s who tattoo their mastectomy scars as an alternative to reconstructive surgery or prosthetics; The parallel rise of tattooing and cosmetic surgery during the '80s when women tattooists became soul doctors to a nation afflicted with body anxieties; Maud Wagner, the first known woman tattooist, who in 1904 traded a date with her tattooist husband-to-be for an apprenticeship; Victorian society women who collected tattoos as custom couture, including Winston Churchill's mother, who wore a serpent on her wrist; 19th century sideshow attractions who created fantastic abduction tales in which they claimed to have been forcibly tattooed.
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| Author | Margo Mifflin |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Juno Books |
| Page Count | 178pp |
| Publication Size | 8.5 x 11 |
| Publication Notes | Softcover, b/w |
| Publication Date | 1997 |
| ISBN | 978-1890451103 |
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