Margot Mifflin is an author who has written for ''

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'', and other publications. Mifflin holds an M.A. in journalism from

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and a B.A. in English from

Occidental College Occidental College (informally Oxy) is a private liberal arts college in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1887 as a coeducational college by clergy and members of the Presbyterian Church, it became non-sectarian in 1910. It is ...

in Los Angeles, where she was friends with

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, an experience she has written about for ''

'' and ''

''. In 1982 she was awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to study the role of dreams in creativity. She is a professor in the English Department of

Lehman College Lehman College is a public college in New York City, United States. Founded in 1931 as the Bronx campus of Hunter College, it became an independent college in 1967. The college is named after Herbert H. Lehman, a former New York governor, United ...

(City University of New York) and in the Arts Reporting Program at CUNY’s Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. Her book ''Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo'' became the first history of women's

tattoo A tattoo is a form of body modification made by inserting tattoo ink, dyes, or pigments, either indelible or temporary, into the dermis layer of the skin to form a design. Tattoo artists create these designs using several tattooing processes ...

art when it was released in 1997. A third edition was published in 2013. ''The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman'', was a finalist for the 2010 Caroline Bancroft History Prize. ''Looking for Miss America: A Pageant's 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood'' won the Popular Culture Association’s 2021 Best Book in Women’s Studies Award.

Bibliography

* ''Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo''.

Juno Books Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books. History Pocket Books produced the first Paperback#Mass market paperback, mass-market, pocket-sized paperback books in the United States in early 1939 and ...

, 1997. ; Powerhouse Books, 2001, 2013, 978-157687-613-8. * ''The Blue Tattoo: The Life of

Olive Oatman Olive Ann Oatman (September 7, 1837March 21, 1903) was a White American woman who was enslaved and later released by Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans in the Mojave Desert region when she was a teenager. She later lectured ...

''.

University of Nebraska Press The University of Nebraska Press (UNP) was founded in 1941 and is an academic publisher of scholarly and general-interest books. The press is under the auspices of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the main campus of the University of Ne ...

, 2009. ; Bison Books (paperback) 978-0-8032-1148-3. * Looking for Miss America: A Pageant's 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood, 2020. 978-1640092235;

Counterpoint Press Counterpoint LLC was a publishing company that Perseus Books Group launched in 2007. It was formed from the consolidation of three presses: Perseus' Counterpoint Press, Shoemaker & Hoard, and Soft Skull Press. The company published books under b ...

References

External links

Margot Mifflin, author website

CUNY Graduate School of Journalism website

''The Blue Tattoo'', prologue

"Why More Women Are Getting Tattoos": Margot Mifflin speaking with Katie Couric on "Katie" (ABC)

"Hate the Brand; Love the Man: Why Ed Hardy Matters"

Margot Mifflin on the Leonard Lopate Show

"A Blank Human Canvas: The Literary Tattoo Leaps From the Page to Living Parchment"
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