ABSTRACT
This edited collection explores how the relationship between comic art and feminism has been shaped by global, transnational, and local trends, curating analyses of multinational comic art that encompass themes of gender, sexuality, power, vulnerability, assault, abuse, taboo, and trauma.
The chapters illuminate in turn the defining features of the aesthetics, materiality, and thematic content of their source material – often expressed with humorous undertones of self-reflection or social criticism – as well as recurring strategies of visualising and narrating female experiences. Broadening the research perspective of feminist comics to include national comics cultures peripheral to the cultural centers of Anglo-American, Franco-Belgian, and Japanese comics, the anthology explores how the dominant narrative or history of canonical works can be challenged or deconstructed by local histories of comics and feminism and their transnational connections, and how local histories complement or challenge the current understanding of the relationship between feminism and comic art.
This is an essential collection for scholars and students in comics studies, women and gender studies, media studies, and literature.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|44 pages
Swedish feminist comics artists
chapter 2|23 pages
Swedish feminist comics and cartoons at the turn of the millennium
chapter 3|19 pages
A woman’s place (in the panel)
part II|68 pages
Gender, sex, and sexuality in German-language comics
chapter 4|22 pages
A brief history of girlsplaining?
chapter 5|22 pages
“What’s in a name?”
chapter 6|22 pages
For sex-positivity?
part III|42 pages
Non-binary and queer expression in comics
part IV|46 pages
Addressing violence in Finnish comics
chapter 9|24 pages
Feminist education and empowerment
part V|39 pages
Memoir and remembering in Polish and Russian comics