Customer Reviews
Fascinating and Good Quality. - By: , 10 Apr 2003 
I bought this book having read the other good reviews on Amazon & I have found it very useful. I am currently writing a creative piece concerning women & tattoos & this book is intelligent, thought-provoking & surprising. It is full of personal stories from women that I have found invaluable for my work. It is particularly strong on the history of women-as-tattooists & is full of good photographs. I would recommend this book to anyone who has any kind of interest in the subject.
An impotant insight into the history of women and tattoo - By: , 08 Jul 2001 This is not only one of the best books on tattoo or women, but it is one of the best books I have ever read. As a student I used the book for my dissertation on women & tattoos, & it was so helpful; I haven't found another book on the subject that even comes close. The photos are great too. I agree with Pat Fish in that people do not realise that it is not that there is a surge in women having tattoos, but women are changing their attitudes in showing them. From where women had their tattoos, to how they made women money, this book looks at over 100 years of history. It is so worth buying!
Excellent, fascinating treatise - By: PETER A THOMAS, 22 Dec 2000 Pat Fish's review is spot-on. It's certainly worth every penny of the price very well written, insightful & interesting, with beautiful, relevant photographs. Go on, buy it!
Not so subversive - By: , 13 Jan 2000 
thoughtfull, if rather repetative. Good photos, shame there's no colour though.
An important history of a secret enthusiasm - By: , 18 Mar 1999 Margot Mifflin's book is an amazingly well-documented & thoroughly acurate telling of the secret history of tattooed women & women tattoo artists in America. I was interviewed extensively for this subject, & throughout the year she was gathering material I watched as Mifflin's knowledge & understanding of her subject matter grew.
I believe the women quoted are proud to have been included & I have not heard ONE of my peers complain about the book, either for attitude expressed or factuallly.
Many people feel that tattooing has experienced a huge upsurgence of popularity in the last decade, but until this book most will not have had the perspective to realise just how common it was for your Grandma to have slipped off to get a wicked little something, possibly a secret only she & her husband shared. It is women's willingness to boldly display their tattoos, NOT their enthuisiasm for body art, that has changed.
