Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips (Studies in Comics and Cartoons) - Hardcover

Kirtley, Susan E

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814214576 ISBN 13: 9780814214572

Publisher: Ohio State University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Winner, 2022 Charles Hatfield Award from the Comics Studies Society

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.

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About the Author

Susan Kirtley is Professor of English at Portland State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814214576
• ISBN 13: 9780814214572
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 268