The Tattoos of Armenian Genocide Survivors : Inscribing the Female Body as a Practice of Regulation
In 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 eventual...
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Karl Franzens Universität Graz
2021-05-01
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| Series: | Journal for Religion, Film and Media |
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| Online Access: | https://unipub.uni-graz.at/jrfm/periodical/titleinfo/6082645 |