Index

Emma Beckett (University of Warwick, UK)

Tattooing and the Gender Turn

ISBN: 978-1-80262-302-4, eISBN: 978-1-80262-301-7

Publication date: 19 October 2023

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Beckett, E. (2023), "Index", Tattooing and the Gender Turn (Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 129-132. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80262-301-720231008

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Copyright © 2023 Emma Beckett. Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited


INDEX

Abusive artists
, 115–116

Activism, resistance through
, 97–104

Aesthetic capital
, 73–74

Aesthetic labour
, 72, 74–76, 78, 114

All-women tattoo project
, 93–94

Alternative subcultures
, 1, 17, 23–24, 36, 110–111

Ambivalence and mainstream
, 113–114

Anglo-American tattooing
, 28

Apprentice system
, 28–29

Artification
, 28

Artistic process
, 41–42

Authentic capital
, 65–66

Authentic consumers
, 56

Authenticity
, 23–24

Bios
, 84

Black Lives Matter
, 88–89

movement
, 88

Black Women
, 7–8

Bloggers
, 40

Blogs
, 19–20

Body modifications
, 20

Body project
, 20

Body work
, 67

Body workers
, 71

and body worked
, 67–71

Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital
, 59

Capital
, 38–40, 56

aesthetic capital
, 73–74

female capital
, 63

feminine capital
, 62–63

gendered capital
, 16

and hierarchies
, 24–26

mainstreaming
, 26–28

queer capital
, 86

sub-cultural capital
, 14

subcultural capital
, 38–40

Caring industry
, 60

Class
, 30

shifting class dynamics
, 28–30

Clients
, 62

Community
, 13–15, 40

Compromise
, 21–22

Convention entertainment
, 90–91

Cover Ups Against Abuse
, 107

COVID-19 pandemic
, 29–30

Creative process
, 69

Cultural capital
, 40

Culture
, 23, 109

DBS
, 106

Digital feminist movements
, 103

Digital media
, 103–104

Discursive activism
, 106, 108

Do-it-Yourself (DIY)
, 18–19

Dominant norms of femininity
, 67

Domination
, 4

eBay
, 28–29

Economic capital
, 113–114

Emails
, 9

interview
, 10

interviewing
, 9–10

Embodied subcultural capital
, 47

Emotional labour
, 67–71, 80–81, 114

Entitlement syndrome
, 43

Face-to-face interviewing
, 9–10

Fellow artists
, 40

Female

artists
, 66

capital
, 60–61, 63, 112–113

capitalising
, 59–62

tattooers
, 65–66

tattooists
, 63

Feminine
, 60, 110, 113

capital
, 60–64, 111–113

capitalising
, 62–67

masquerade
, 54–55

symbolic indicators
, 64–65

traits
, 63, 65

Femininity
, 16, 50–51, 59, 64–65, 111, 115

negotiation
, 20–23

Feminism
, 93–94

feminist methodologies
, 5–6

industry, community and sub-cultural field
, 13–15

ladies tattoo
, 2–16

methods
, 8–11

power relations in research process
, 11–13

reflexivity and theorised subjectivity
, 6–8

women tattoo
, 4–5

Feminist
, 93

activism
, 107

discourses
, 92

interview process
, 13

methodologies
, 5–6, 13

research practice
, 4

research project
, 7

tattoo studio
, 84

Fieldwork
, 11

Flashing femininity
, 22, 112–113

Fluid movement
, 116

Gender
, 23–24

capital
, 60–61

labour
, 112–113

manoeuvring concept
, 54

turn
, 116–118

Gendered authenticity
, 47–53

Gendered capital
, 16, 59, 118

Hairdressing
, 68–69

Hashtag feminism
, 103

Hegemonic femininity
, 66–67

Hegemonic masculinity
, 49, 51–53, 97

of culture
, 56

Hierarchical sub-cultural industry
, 109–110

Hierarchy
, 17, 29, 46–47, 84

High Voltage Tattoo
, 40–41

Industry
, 13, 15, 77

hierarchies
, 38–40

Initiatives
, 107

Instagram
, 9, 40, 74–75, 84, 88, 99, 105–106

Inter-sub-cultural resistance
, 115–116

Internet
, 103–104

Intra-sub-cultural resistance
, 107

Invisible femininity
, 111–112

Kat von D (KVD)
, 40–41, 114

effect
, 40–45

Knowledge
, 37–38

LA Ink
, 27, 40–41

Labour

aesthetic
, 72, 76, 78

emotional
, 80–81

gendered
, 112–113

Ladies tattoo
, 2–16

LBGTQIA+ clients
, 85

LC
, 7–8

LGBTQ+ clients
, 86–87

Macho tattoo culture
, 62, 86–87

Magazine editors
, 40

Mainstreamed sub-culture
, 113

Male artists attitude
, 98

Male bias
, 109

Male gatekeepers
, 109

Male knowledge
, 23–24

Male-dominated subcultures
, 23

Masculinised subcultures
, 23

Masculinity
, 50–51

Meaningful tattoos
, 21

Men
, 23–24

Methodology, feminist
, 13

#Metoo movement
, 98–99, 108

Miami Ink (TLC television series)
, 27, 40–41

Motherhood
, 21

National lockdowns
, 29–30

Non-binary
, 108

artists
, 118

Non-hierarchical relationship
, 12

Objective capital
, 73–74

Other’ artist
, 45–47

Paradox
, 26–28

Pink machines
, 64–65

Power imbalance
, 70

Power relations in research process
, 11–13

Queer artists
, 108, 110

Queer capital
, 86, 112–113

Queer tattoo artists
, 118

Queer-friendly studios
, 84, 86

Recuperative strategy
, 22

Reflexivity
, 7

subjectivity
, 6–8

Reminiscent of activism
, 105–106

Research
, 30, 67–68

power relations in
, 11–13

process
, 6–7, 11, 41

Resistance
, 18–19, 114, 116

in action
, 84–89

through activism
, 97–104

through thought
, 91–95

Resistant women
, 18–20

Riot Grrrl movement
, 17–20, 67, 105–106

Rock star
, 49

Roller derby
, 17

Safe spaces
, 85–86

Scratcher
, 29, 47

Seriousness
, 23–24

Sexism
, 109

Shades Tattoo Initiative
, 88–89

Skateboarding
, 17

Social media
, 1–2, 102–105

platforms
, 40, 74–75

Society
, 102

Spaces, changing
, 84–89

Spiritualist tattooing
, 93–95

Sub-cultural capital
, 14, 16, 25, 38, 40, 47–48, 54–56, 102, 113, 118

Sub-cultural field
, 13–15

Sub-cultural paradoxes
, 109–110

Sub-cultural professional

boys
, 53–55

from consumer to producer
, 33–38

gendered authenticity
, 47–53

other artist
, 45–47

subcultural capital and industry hierarchies
, 38–40

television and Kat Von D Effect
, 40–45

Sub-cultural sexism
, 104–105

Sub–cultural author
, 40

Subcultural participants
, 27–28

Sub–cultural producer
, 33, 46

Subcultural relationships
, 31

Subcultural sport
, 17

Subcultural women
, 18–20

Subcultures
, 13–14, 17, 26–27, 38, 116

Subversion
, 18–19, 92

of societal norms
, 34–35

Survivors, tattoos for
, 95–97

Survivors Ink
, 95

Symbolic rebellion
, 34–35

Tattoo imagery
, 7–8, 14, 26–27, 29–31, 61–62, 104–105

resistance in action
, 84–89

resistance through activism
, 97–104

resistance through thought
, 91–95

talking action
, 104–107

tattoo conventions
, 89–91

tattoos for survivors
, 95–97

#TattooMeToo
, 97–104

hashtag
, 98

movement
, 16, 19–20, 102–105

survivors
, 101–102

Tattoo Sexual Assault Survivor Support (TSASS)
, 99–100

Tattooed body
, 73

Tattooed community
, 13–14

Tattooed people
, 46

Tattooed women
, 20, 23, 78

Tattooees
, 1–2

to tattooer
, 33–38

Tattooer
, 33–38

Tattooing
, 3–5, 42–43, 60–61, 68–69, 75–76, 83, 117

and gender turn
, 116–118

kits
, 28–29

process
, 70, 92–93, 101

Tattooists
, 56, 72, 84, 100

Tattoos
, 20, 30, 83, 90–91, 95–96, 117

art
, 29–30

artists
, 14, 29–30, 101

community
, 5, 31, 36

conventions
, 26, 89, 91

culture
, 108

reality shows
, 27

research
, 117

space
, 85–86

studios
, 85–86, 104

sub-culture
, 52–53, 102–103

for survivors
, 95–97

Television
, 40, 43–45

Terminology
, 13–15

Theorised subjectivity
, 6–8

Trans-sub-cultural practitioners
, 116

Transcription process
, 10

TSASS
, 105

Twitter (digital-snow-balling tool)
, 9, 99

Voyeurism
, 91

Western countries
, 113–114

Western society
, 10

#whyIdidntreport (hashtag)
, 101

Woman’ work

body worker and body worked
, 67–71

capitalising female
, 59–62

capitalising feminine
, 62–67

commodifying self
, 71–76

managing self
, 76–79

Women
, 2–3, 16, 20–21, 48, 80, 108, 110, 118

credibility
, 101–102

tattoo
, 4–5

tattooists
, 3

women-dominated subcultures
, 23

women-led subcultures
, 17

Word of mouth snowballing method
, 9

Work
, 87–88

Workplace
, 11, 59, 72, 76

World-wide campaigns
, 88–89

Youth subcultures
, 18

Zero-tolerance approach
, 105

Zoom
, 10