Keyword

body modification

Description: Deliberate, nonmedical alteration of the human body, studied in social science, cultural studies, and adolescent health research.

Primary topic: Tattoo and Body Piercing Complications (27%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q890057

OpenAlex ID: keywords/body-modification

Body image: understanding body dissatisfaction in men, women, and children

1999 · Choice Reviews Online · 1,870

Making the Body Beautiful

1999 · Sander L. Gilman · Princeton University Press eBooks · 592

The post-subcultures reader

2003 · David Muggleton, Rupert Weinzierl · 588

Body, Image and Affect in Consumer Culture

2010 · Mike Featherstone · Body & Society · 495

Body Projects and the Regulation of Normative Masculinity

2005 · Rosalind Gill, Karen Henwood, et al. · Body & Society · 484

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Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery

1994 · Kathy Davis · 428

Bodies under siege : self-mutilation and body modification in culture and psychiatry

1996 · Armando R. Favazza · Johns Hopkins University Press eBooks · 422

Dress and Identity

1992 · Mary Ellen Roach-Higgins, Joanne B. Eicher · Clothing and Textiles Research Journal · 402

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Treating Self-Injury: A Practical Guide

2005 · Barent W. Walsh · 374

Women and the Knife: Cosmetic Surgery and the Colonization of Women's Bodies

1991 · Kathryn Pauly Morgan · Hypatia · 365

The Evolution of Human Physical Attractiveness

2005 · Steven W. Gangestad, Glenn J. Scheyd · Annual Review of Anthropology · 360

Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery

1996 · Dahlian Kirby, Society for Women in Philosophy UK · Women’s Philosophy Review · 342

The Managed Hand

2010 · Miliann Kang · University of California Press eBooks · 296

Body Work

2002 · Debra Gimlin · University of California Press eBooks · 291

Body piercing: medical consequences and psychological motivations

2003 · Aglaja Stirn · The Lancet · 289

What Is ‘Body Work’? A Review of the Literature

2007 · Debra Gimlin · Sociology Compass · 287

Selling Pain to the Saturated Self

2017 · Rebecca Scott, Julien Cayla, et al. · Journal of Consumer Research · 282

Body, self, and society: the view from Fiji

1996 · Choice Reviews Online · 278

Body Work: Beauty and Self-Image in American Culture

2003 · Victoria Pitts, Debra L. Gimlin · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 270

Beauty and Misogyny

2005 · Sheila Jeffreys · Routledge eBooks · 266

Customizing the Body: The Art and Culture of Tattooing.

1990 · Diane Barthel, Clinton R. Sanders · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 266

Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery

2003 · Sander L. Gilman, BRIGID LUSK · Nursing History Review · 260

In the Flesh

2003 · Victoria L. Pitts · Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks · 254

Modifying the body: Motivations for getting tattooed and pierced

2007 · Silke Wohlrab, Jutta Stahl, et al. · Body Image · 246

The Commodification of the Body Positive Movement on Instagram

2016 · Jessica Cwynar-Horta · Stream Interdisciplinary Journal of Communication · 244

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Works count: 12,530

Citation count: 51,080