ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the case of Hillary Clinton and the feminist schoolgirl stereotype as a form of rhetorical violence that is normalized across children's literature, popular culture, and media. Linguistic and pictorial violence often hides in plain sight in the pages of picture books, comics, and other visual-verbal texts in ways that overlap with and inform misogynistic representations of girls and women across visual cultures. The chapter offers few examples of graphic feminist pedagogy by comics artists Lela Lee and Una who make visible and resist rhetorical and sexual violence against girls. Lee exposes the good girl as a disciplinary construct that serves everyone but the girl who then must direct anger inwards. Una incorporates the overwhelming and underreported instances of male violence. In so doing, she demythologizes the rapist as a unique character, as a wolf or a charmer.
