Thesis
Midwestern Dermis: Narrative, Women, and Tattoos in the Midwest
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
01/2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000001860
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/125143
Abstract
As a microcosm of the greater US, Midwestern culture is based upon traveling, bucolic ideals, and cyclic poverty. Tattooed Midwestern women occupy a unique position within the culture; they embody a story-- personal, political, collective, and cultural. The ink that rests in the dermis of tattooed Midwestern women holds multiple layers of significance, used as a way of expression, connecting to other people, and healing emotional wounds. Cultural expectations encourage women with tattoos to share their narrative as a way of validating and aligning their bodies with traditionally conservative understandings of the female form. Midwestern women instilled with a compulsory cordiality and spurred by general accessibility, assign meaning to their tattoos and the stories that accompany them. Tattoo chronicles of Midwestern women answer for the marked female body.
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- Title
- Midwestern Dermis: Narrative, Women, and Tattoos in the Midwest
- Creators
- Casey Lynn Walle
- Contributors
- Jeannette-Marie Mageo (Advisor)Nancy McKee (Committee Member)Clare Wilkinson (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 59
- Identifiers
- 99900606550601842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis