O consumo de tatuagens como um símbolo de empoderamento feminino em Fortaleza

Abstract

This work seeks to understand women's desire to consume tattoos as a symbol of female empowerment by tattoo artists from the city of Fortaleza and who carry symbols of resistance and empowerment in their feminist illustrations, taking the tattoo as a form of self-affirmation identity. Why are contemporary women failing to mark their skin with the work of tattoo artists to give way to female representation in the universe of tattooing? In order to understand the reason for this personal choice and in what it influences its integration with the specific group in which one lives (place). A bibliographic research was carried out through books, articles and online publications on tattoos and women, and a qualitative research, in the form of a semi-structured interview, via Google form. Twelve women from the city of Fortaleza were interviewed and their responses indicated a desire to secure the woman's place in the tattoo market in the city, in order to give tattooers visibility and credibility equivalent to that given to the city's tattoo artists. In addition, respondents consider their tattoos a symbol of their individuality as part of a collective, perceiving their body as a political element.