In the flesh : the cultural politics of body modification / Victoria L. Pitts.

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

vi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

1st Palgrave Macmillan ed.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-234) and index.

Bodies of power: new body art technologies -- Subversive bodies, invented selves: theorizing body politics -- Reclaiming the female body: women body modifiers and feminist debates -- Visibly queer: body technologies and sexual politics -- Modern primitivism and the deployment of the other -- Cyberpunk, biomedicine, and the high-tech body -- Reading the postmodern techno-body.