ZUCKER, Hal (ed.).

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Tattooed Women and their Mates. First and only edition, first printing, of this unusual study which surveys a range of tattooing traditions for women and recognizes tattooing as an art form. It was issued as Number 1 in the "World Folk Arts Series", though the series was discontinued immediately after this publication.Harold "Hal" Zucker was a regular collaborator with the Samuel Roth, a publisher who was the plaintiff in the landmark case Roth v. United States of 1957; this was perhaps the key Supreme Court ruling on freedom of sexual expression. Together, they published books that, like Tattooed Women and their Mates, were uncommonly frank in their depictions of sexuality and nudity for 1950s America.

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