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Mar 5, 2023 · For women, tattoos can have a special kind of meaning. They can be a symbol of empowerment, body positivity, and a form of feminist self-expression. Women are increasingly turning to tattoos to express their identity and show the world their strength.
Mar 2, 2017 · As Cristian Petru Panaite, curator of an exhibit on the 300-year history of tattooing, open now at the New-York Historical Society, puts it, “Tattoos were an early way that women took control of...
Feb 19, 2019 · In this paper, we argue that meaning-making for women's tattoos serves to function as legitimating, producing tattooed feminine bodies as more acceptable. We argue for a closer examination of the regulatory discourses that feed into the choices that women make in relation to their tattooed bodies.
- Charlotte Dann, Jane Callaghan
- 19 February 2019
- 13
- 13, Issue3
A tattoo is a form of body modification made by inserting tattoo ink, dyes, and/or pigments, either indelible or temporary, into the dermis layer of the skin to form a design. Tattoo artists create these designs using several tattooing processes and techniques, including hand-tapped traditional tattoos and modern tattoo machines.
- My First Seven Tattoos
- Maori
- Thracian
- Egyptian
- Cycladic
- My Eighth Tattoo
I grew up with friends who appreciated the significance of tattoos. As soon I turned 18, in 2000, I was off to a local parlour to embrace legal adulthood and get a small tattoo. I had drawn it myself, using elements of my zodiac sign. My second tattoo was my first mermaid design. The motif was a larger version of a charm my father had given me. I w...
Elsdon Best was an ethnographer who gathered detailed information from the Tuhoe tribe (from the North Island of Aotearoa) in the very early 1900s. He recounts in his book, The Uhi-Maori (1904), that elite families tattooed the younger sisters prior to the tattooing of the eldest one, who was the most tapu (sacred). The tattooing of the lips and ch...
Thrace of the Greco-Roman world existed in what we now call east Macedonia, southeast Bulgaria and parts of Turkey. Pictorial representations of Thracian women with tattoos appear on Greek red-figure vases such as the one pictured here, with a Thracian woman attacking Orpheus. Luc Renaut, an art historian, suggests that in Thrace, tattooing added b...
Much older artistic (and direct) evidence of female tattooing comes from Egypt. Egyptian tattoos from the late third to early second millennium survive on female mummiesand were replicated on female figurines. A pair of Eleventh Dynasty female Egyptian mummies excavated at Deir el-Bahari is the strongest evidence that in the Middle Kingdom, Egyptia...
The Cycladic people (ca. 3000-2000 BCE) colonised the Cycladic Islands. They were the first major Aegean civilisation to flourish in the Early Bronze Age, until the Minoans of Crete rose to prominence with their maritime prowess in the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2000-1500 BCE). The mortuary practices of Cycladic people (burial, sometimes multiple buria...
I chose a blue evil eye as my eighth, and most recent tattoo motif - to pay homage to the eye painted on Cycladic female sculptures. It was done by a female tattooist in Athens on my last research trip to Greece in 2014. The power of female fertility and perils of prehistoric childbirth in ancient societies probably meant that tattoos on women conv...
Aug 12, 2024 · Explore the transformative journey of women in the tattoo industry, from historical challenges to modern-day successes. Discover how female tattoo artists are breaking stereotypes, shaping trends, and fostering inclusive communities.
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Oct 16, 2023 · Last Updated: October 16, 2023. Tattoos are permanent forms of body art that belong to a multitude of different cultures all over the world. Here, we take a closer look at the history of tattoos. We’ll focus on where they originated from, and how practices have evolved since early times.
