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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewScholarly and fascinating. -- Colette Bancroft St. Petersburg Times The graphic novel industry isn't a boys club. Time Out Chicago Graphic Women is a text that will appeal to anyone with an interest in contemporary women's literature and trauma studies, as well as those with a budding or established interest in the rich world of comics studies. -- Tahneer Oksman Contemporary Women's Writing An absorbing book written with dedication, impressive documentation, and a very sharp eye for detail. -- Mihaela Precup Biography ...an essential book for those who are interested in autobiography, visual studies and comics in general as it initiates a beginning in the study of women's graphic memoirs. -- Olga Michael Scadinavian Journal of Comic Art
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Women Comics 1. Scratching the Surface: "Ugly" Excess in Aline Kominsky-Crumb 2. "For All the Girls When They Have Grown": Phoebe Gloeckner's Ambivalent Images 3. Materializing Memory: Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons 4. Graphic Narrative as Witness: Marjane Satrapi and the Texture of Retracing 5. Animating an Archive: Repetition and Regeneration in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home Notes Works Cited Index
