Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos: A Social History of the Tattoo with Gangs, Sailors, and Street-Corner Punks by Michael Williams, Samuel M. Steward

Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos: A Social History of the Tattoo with Gangs, Sailors, and Street-Corner Punks

Haworth Series in Gay & Lesbian Studies

Michael Williams, Samuel M. Steward

204 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction sociology medium-paced
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Explore the dark subculture of 1950s tattoos!In the early 1950s, when tattoos were the indelible mark of a lowlife, an erudite professor of English--a friend of Gertrude Stein, Thomas Mann, Andre Gide, and Thornton Wilder--abandoned his job to bec...

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