Here are nine extraordinary changemakers ... She estimates that only a fifth of Argentina's tattoo artists are women, and believes that they play an important role in making the industry safer ...

In many cultures, tattoos have a history rich with women as both the tattooers and tattooees. In Inuit culture, mainly women would both give and receive tattoos (kakiniit) that played into social ...

Now they're cool hipster chicks. A recently published third edition of a book about body art, Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and the Tattoo by Margot Mifflin (powerHouse Books ...