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Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos: A Social History of the Tattoo with Gangs, Sailors, and Street-Corner Punks, 1950–1965, Samuel M. Steward, New York: Haworth Press, 1990, 204 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2014

Monique Layton
Affiliation:
School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Law and Society Association 1993

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References

1. The reader interested in the literature on tattoo and tattoing could profitably consult such books as Sanders, C., Customizing the Body: The Art and Culture of Tattooing (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989)Google Scholar and particularly its thorough bibliography. For those intrigued with the visual and artistic experience of the tattoo, B. Attie, N. Monroe & M. Wellner's videotape (the ideal medium) Skin and Ink: Artists and Collectors would be of interest; failing this, its review by J. Herman in 105:415 J. of American Folklore 83 would provide a fresh perspective.

2. Polsky, N., Hustlers, Beats and Others (Chicago: Aldine, 1967)Google Scholar

3. Spradley, J. P. & Mann, B. J., The Cocktail Waitress: Woman's Work in a Man's World (New York: Wiley & Sons, 1975).Google Scholar