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Title: Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community by Margo Demello ISBN: 0-8223-2467-9 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: March, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95

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Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (3 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: A bit too elitist
Comment: Ms. DeMello spends too much time acting as her own apologist as she explains how she acquired "insider" status in the tattoo community while still remaining an impartial observer. One thing I found particularly objectionable in her book was her apparent opinion, insinuated several times, that only women with "the body beautiful" should get tattoos (much less display them in public -- horrors!) As a woman (liberated, one assumes), Ms. DeMello should know better. This is one book which is going to end up in a used bookstore rather than in my collection.

Rating: 2
Summary: not what I expected
Comment: Tattoo books usually have a lot of pictures in them - at least the ones I've seen do. This book, while written very nicely, didn't have many pictures, and the ones it did have are grainy and in black-and-white. The history of the tattoo community is interesting, though I would have liked to see a bit more on how tattooing evolved from ancient times to now, instead of just from the 80's to now.

Rating: 5
Summary: OK
Comment: This book was ok! i was hoping for something more traditional in the designs the author gave her readers! i could have done i without the gang tattoes though!