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The Tattoos of Armenian Genocide Survivors: Inscribing the Female Body as a Practice of Regulation

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dc.creatorGlum, Ulrike Luise
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-23T09:25:18Z
dc.date.available2023-05-23T09:25:18Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractIn the course of the Armenian Genocide (1915–1917), an unknown number of female victims were forcibly tattooed, often on the face. Inscribing them with an alien identity, their captors permanently regulated the women’s bodies in order to assimilate them into their communities. Some women eventually escaped and found shelter in orphanages or women’s houses, but the tattoos remained on their skin, constituting a barrier to their reintegration. These women were stigmatized and shunned, their tattoos seen as a sign of sexual impurity and “transculturation”. The tattoos needed to be removed – and the women’s bodies regulated once again. Approaching tattoos as a means of regulation, this article explores how inscription materializes power dynamics in the context of the female body.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.7:2021.1.7
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19544
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/243
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20739
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
dc.subjectTattoosen
dc.subjectArmeniaen
dc.subjectGenocide Survivorsen
dc.subjectInscribingen
dc.subjectFemale Bodyen
dc.subject.ddcddc:200
dc.titleThe Tattoos of Armenian Genocide Survivors: Inscribing the Female Body as a Practice of Regulationen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2023-05-23T11:41:30
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/243
local.source.epage143
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleMateriality of Writing. Reconsidering Religious Texts
local.source.spage123
local.source.volume7

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