{"product_id":"the-routledge-companion-to-gender-and-sexuality-in-comic-book-studies-9780367505295","title":"The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies\u003c\/em\u003e is a comprehensive, global, and interdisciplinary examination of the essential relationship between Gender, Sexuality, Comics, and Graphic Novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA diverse range of international and interdisciplinary scholars take a closer look at how gender and sexuality have been essential in the evolution of comics, and how gender and sexuality in comics demand that we re-frame and re-view comics history. Chapters cover a wide array of intersectional topics including Queer Underground and Alternative comics, Feminist Autobiography, re-drawing disability, Latina testimony, and re-evaluating the critical whiteness and masculinity of superheroes in this first truly global reference text to gender and sexuality in comics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComics have always been an important place for the radical exploration of feminist and non-binary sexualities and identities, and the growth of non-normative comic book traditions as a \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Yet another milestone in Aldama’s overturning of long held misconceptions that the world of comics and graphic novels lacks space for marginalized voices and diverse perspectives,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethis collection is essential reading for anyone studying and, more importantly, making comics. While taking a comprehensive look back at gender and sexuality in cartooning of the past, the carefully curated essays suggest a future for comics where previously underrepresented voices will all have equal opportunity to take center stage\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatt Silady, Eisner-nominated comics creator and Chair of the MFA in Comics program, \u003ci\u003eCalifornia College of the Arts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A veritable cornucopia of sophisticated, intersectional analysis that digs deep into the history of the comics industry and the sequential art medium to examine how gender and sexuality have shaped our understanding of storytelling, our worldview, and ourselves. This is a necessary compendium that will continue to push comics forward.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With its overarching intersectional framework used to investigate a medium uniquely suited for both personal exploration and collective expression, this volume goes way beyond a clichéd understanding of comics as a playground for pulp anxieties. A remarkably comprehensive tome on an elusive subject!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatie Skelly, award-winning comics creator and author of \u003ci\u003eMaids \u003c\/i\u003ewith Fantagraphics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Yet another milestone in Aldama’s overturning of long held misconceptions that the world of comics and graphic novels lacks space for marginalized voices and diverse perspectives,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethis collection is essential reading for anyone studying and, more importantly, making comics. While taking a comprehensive look back at gender and sexuality in cartooning of the past, the carefully curated essays suggest a future for comics where previously underrepresented voices will all have equal opportunity to take center stage\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatt Silady, Eisner-nominated comics creator and Chair of the MFA in Comics program, \u003ci\u003eCalifornia College of the Arts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A veritable cornucopia of sophisticated, intersectional analysis that digs deep into the history of the comics industry and the sequential art medium to examine how gender and sexuality have shaped our understanding of storytelling, our worldview, and ourselves. This is a necessary compendium that will continue to push comics forward.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With its overarching intersectional framework used to investigate a medium uniquely suited for both personal exploration and collective expression, this volume goes way beyond a clichéd understanding of comics as a playground for pulp anxieties. A remarkably comprehensive tome on an elusive subject!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKatie Skelly, award-winning comics creator and author of \u003ci\u003eMaids \u003c\/i\u003ewith Fantagraphics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Interrogating Restrictive Frames; Chapter 1: Translating Masculinity: The Significance of the Frontier in American Superheroes; Chapter 2: Black Boys and Black Girls in Comics: An Affective and Historical Mapping of Intertwined Stereotypes; Chapter 3: Pocket-Sized Pornography: Representations of Sexual Violence and Masculinity in Tijuana Bibles; Chapter 4: The Comic Strip in Advertising: Persuasion, Gender, Sexuality; Chapter 5: Real Men Choose Vasectomy: Questioning and Redefining Mexican National Masculinity in \u003ci\u003eLos Supermachos\u003c\/i\u003e, from Rius to Anonymous Authors; Chapter 6: Marriage, Domesticity and Superheroes (For Better or Worse); \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eChapter 7: \"Is that a monster between your legs or are ya just happy to see me?\": Sex, Subjectivity, and the Superbody in the \u003ci\u003eMarvel Swimsuit Special\u003c\/i\u003e; Part II: Ethnoracial Queer and Feminist Space Clearing Gestures; Chapter 8: Life Out Loud in the Closet: The Grotesque as Latinx Imagination in Cristy C. Road’s \u003cem\u003eSpit and Passion\u003c\/em\u003e;\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eChapter 9: Graphic (Narrative) Presentations of Violence Against Indigenous Women: Responses to the MMIW Crisis in North America; Chapter 10: From \"Accidental\" Autobiography to Comics Activism: Tracing the Development of an Andalusian-Chinese Feminism in the Work of Comics Artist Quan Zhou; Chapter 11: Plea Deal Compounds: Black Women’s Anger in \"the System\" of \u003cem\u003eBitch Planet\u003c\/em\u003e;\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ePart III: Back to the Future; Chapter 12: Panels of Innocence and Experience: Reading Sexual Subjectivity Through Horror Comics ; Chapter 13: Teenage Biology 101: Serializing a Queer Girlhood in Ariel Schrag's \u003ci\u003ePotential\u003c\/i\u003e; Chapter 14: Genre, Gender, Sexual, Textual and Visual, and Real Representations in \u003ci\u003eBande Dessinée\u003c\/i\u003e; Chapter 15: A Comics \u003cem\u003eÉcriture Féminine\u003c\/em\u003e: Anke Feuchtenberger’s Feminist Graphic Expression; Chapter 16: \"I’m Trapped In Here!\" Gender Performativity and Affect in Emma Ríos's \u003cem\u003eI.D.\u003c\/em\u003e; Chapter 17: Empirical Looking: Situating the Multiple Elements of \u003ci\u003eRadioactive: Marie \u0026amp; Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout\u003c\/i\u003e as Vehicles for Articulating a Place for Women in Science; Part IV: Counterpublics; Chapter 18: From Anodyne Animals to Filthy Beasts: Defying and Defiling Safety, Sanctity, and Sexual Suppression in Underground Animal Comics; Chapter 19: Wonder Woman’s Complicated Relationship with Feminism; Chapter 20: \"Part of Something Bigger\": Ms.\/Captain Marvel; Chapter 21: Higher, Further, Faster Baby! The Feminist Evolution of Carol Danvers from Comics to Film; Chapter 22: Female Fans, Female Creators, and Female Superheroes: The Semiotics of Changing Gender Dynamics; Chapter 23: Public-Facing Feminisms: Subverting the Lettercol in \u003ci\u003eBitch Planet\u003c\/i\u003e; Chapter 24: \"I’d Like Everything That’s Bad For Me!\": Tank Girl’s Cracks in Patriarchal Pop Culture; Chapter 25: Falling In Stepping Out: Little Red Formation as Agentic Gender Construction in \u003ci\u003eLumberjanes\u003c\/i\u003e; Part V: Worldly Interventions; Chapter 26: \"A Revelation Not of the Flesh, but of the Mind\": Performing Queer Textuality in Alison Bechdel’s \u003ci\u003eFun Home\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eChapter 27: \u003cem\u003eBLOOD\u003c\/em\u003e, or: Gender and Nation in the Contemporary Polish Comic; \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eChapter 28: My Grandmother Collects Memories: Gender and Remembrance in Hispanic Graphic Narratives; Chapter 29: Feminist Riots and Gay Giants: The Mayo Feminista and Cultural Context of Contemporary Queer Chilean Comics\u003cb\u003e; \u003c\/b\u003eChapter 30: Questioning Obscenity: The Place of \"Pussy\" in Manga and the World; Chapter 31: See Him, See Her, See Xir: LGBTQ Visibility in Shōnen Manga at the Turn of the Century; Chapter 32: An Age of Sparkle and Drama: Exploring Gender Identities and Cultural Narratives in 1970s Shōjo Manga; Part VI: Queer and Feminist Intermedial Textures; Chapter 33: Representing the Extreme End-point of Sexual Violence: Ethical Strategies in Phoebe Gloeckner’s \u003cem\u003eLa Tristeza\u003c\/em\u003e;\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eChapter 34: The People Upstairs: Space, Memory, and the Queered Family in \u003ci\u003eMy Favorite Thing Is Monsters \u003c\/i\u003eby Emil Ferris; Chapter 35: Fat Bats, Postpunks, and Ice Witches: Afrogoth and the Undead Music of Militia Vox and the Comix of Calyn Pickens Rich; Chapter 36: Catherine Meurisse and the Gender of Art; Chapter 37: My Life With Toys: An Academic \u003ci\u003eEsai\u003c\/i\u003e into the Queer Multipurposing of Toys as Interrupted by the Author’s Life; Chapter 38: \"Bobby…You’re Gay\": Marvel’s Iceman, Performativity, Continuity, and Queer Visibility\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017932570967,"sku":"9780367505295","price":43.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367505295.jpg?v=1750775118","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-routledge-companion-to-gender-and-sexuality-in-comic-book-studies-9780367505295","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}