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 piercing, cyberpunk
and such "neotribal" practices as scarification. She interprets the
stories of 16 body modifiers (as well as some subcultural magazines
and films) using the tools of feminist and queer theory.

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