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The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
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2009
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Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo
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1997
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10 editions
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Looking for Miss America: A Pageant’s 100-Year Quest to Define Womanhood
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2020
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Looking for Miss America, this week in Publisher’s Weekly…
Margot Mifflin. Counterpoint, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-64009-223-5
Mifflin (Bodies of Subversion), an English professor at
Lehman College, intertwines the histories of the Miss America pageant
and American feminism in this vigorously researched and wryly humorous
account. Over the
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“But the very pattern Olive wore appears on a ceramic figurine of the late nineteenth or early twentieth century that displays traditional Mohave face painting, tattoo, beads, and clothing.”
― The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
― The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
“In the early years of the Civil War, she continued to lecture and make other celebrity appearances. She visited the Old Ladies Home in New York City, where she bought a needlepoint bookmark in the shape of a Latin cross. She shopped in Boston. She visited the Abbotts in 1863. And in 1864, she learned that the Mohave leader who had orchestrated her adoption into the tribe was coming east. After a chain of events on the Colorado that Olive could never have imagined during her life as a Mohave, Irataba, now a Mohave diplomat and leader revered by whites, was in the city after a visit with President Lincoln in Washington. She bought herself a ticket to see him.”
― The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
― The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
“In the coming years, Irataba emerged — from the perspective of the federal government — as the leader and spokesperson not only of the Mohaves, but of all the Colorado River tribes.”
― The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
― The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
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