Why do people get tattoos?
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Why do people get tattoos?
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As increasingly diverse groups of people get tattoos, popular perceptions are often out of synch with the individual meanings
behind them
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People use tattoos to express who they are, what they have lived through, and how they see themselves in relation to others and to
their social worlds
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Tattooed youth
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Tattooed youth:a vehicle to mark adulthood
a. greater control and authority over their own lives
b. asserting autonomy over their own bodies
c. signify and solidify group memberships
d. commemorating a passage to adulthood & a committed relationship
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Tattooing women
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Tattooing women
defy and reproduce conventional standards of femininity
challenging traditional gender norms
conform to mainstream standards of femininity
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Tattooing women
enforce rather than challenge traditional femininity
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Tattooing women
meanings women attach to their tattoos are “culturally written over” by the larger society
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Tattooing women
reclaim their bodies from traumatic experiences[tattoo over mastectomy scar]
reclaiming lost or violated parts of themselves
[A U.K. woman has tattooed herself with the logo of the air ambulance company that helped save her father's life]
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Tattooing women
reclaim their bodies from more everyday experiences of feeling unattractive, weak, or different
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Tattooing women
complex practice that involves both conformity and resistance to the expectation that their bodies be attractive to men
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Limitations
• carry stigma and can provoke discrimination
• teenagers perceived as gang members, drug users, dropouts, and troublemakers
• cover tattoos not only when looking for work but also on the job
• create tensions in interpersonal relations
• contradictory interpretations of tattoos may also confront those who wish to make political or social statements
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“Tats”
• ongoing, complex need for humans to express themselves through the appearance of their bodies
• a canvas to record the struggles between conformity and resistance, power and victimization, individualism and group membership
• power as vehicles for self-expression, commemoration, community building, and social commentary