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256 pages • first pub 2002 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780231125031
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Edition Pub Date: 06 October 2004
Description
"Only skin deep," "getting under one's skin," "the naked truth" metaphors about the skin pervade the language even as physical embellishments and alterations--tattoos, piercings, skin-lifts, liposuction, tanning, and more--proliferate in Western c...
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256 pages • first pub 2002 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780231125031
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Edition Pub Date: 06 October 2004
Description
"Only skin deep," "getting under one's skin," "the naked truth" metaphors about the skin pervade the language even as physical embellishments and alterations--tattoos, piercings, skin-lifts, liposuction, tanning, and more--proliferate in Western c...