Typical Girls The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips / Susan E. Kirtley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirtley, Susan E., author.

Series:

Studies in comics and cartoons

Studies in Comics and Cartoons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages)

Place of Publication:

[sine loco] : The Ohio State University Press, 2021.

Summary:

In the years following 1975, a group of female-created comic strips came to national attention in a traditionally male-dominated medium. Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips uncovers the understudied and developing history of these strips, defining and exploring the ramifications of this expression of women's roles at a time of great change in history and in comic art. This impressive, engaging, and timely study illustrates how these comics express the complexities of women's experiences, especially as such experiences were shaped by shifting and often competing notions of womanhood and feminism. Including the comics of Lynn Johnston (For Better or For Worse), Cathy Guisewite (Cathy), Nicole Hollander (Sylvia), Lynda Barry (Ernie Pook's Comeek), Barbara Brandon-Croft (Where I'm Coming From), Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out For), and Jan Eliot (Stone Soup), Typical Girls is an important history of the representation of womanhood and women's rights in popular comic strips.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2020: HSS Frontlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 105398

ISBN:

9780814214572

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.26818/9780814214572

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access