Sugar, spice, and the not so nice : comics picturing girlhood / edited by Dona Pursall and Eva Van de Wiele.

Date:
[2023]
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Description

"Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice offers an innovative, wide-ranging and geographically diverse book-length treatment of girlhood in comics. The various contributing authors and artists provide novel insights into established themes within comics studies, children’s comics, graphic medicine and comics by and about refugees and marginalised ethnic or cultural groups. The book enriches traditional historical, narratological and aesthetic approaches to studying girlhood in comics with practice-based research, discussion and conversation. This re-examination of girls, gender and identity in comics connects with contemporary discourse on gender identity politics. Through examples from both within Europe, the anglophone world and beyond, and including visual essays alongside critical theory, the volume furthermore engages with new developments in contemporary comics scholarship. It will therefore appeal to students and scholars of childhood studies, comics scholars and creators, and those interested in addressing gender identity through the prism of comics."--From publisher.

Publication/Creation

Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2023]

Physical description

250 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 23 cm.

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Contributors

Notes

Held April 22-23, 2021, Ghent University.

Contents

'It's the girl!' : comics, professional identity, affection, nostalgia and embarrassment / Mel Gibson -- Looking for queerness / Martha Newbigging -- Harrowing rites of passage : refugee girlhood in the wake of Syrian migrant crisis / María Porras Sánchez -- Comics, caregiving and crip time / JoAnn Purcell -- Discussing gender in a communist comics magazine : Corinne et Jeannot, 1970 / Sylvain Lesage -- The ambivalence of girlhood and motherhood in a girl-and-her-dog comics series : Margot & Oscar Pluche, Sac à Puces / Benoît Glaude -- Modernity, aesthetics and the active female body in Mirabelle (1960-1967) / Joan Ormrod -- The demon girl of Malayali comic strips : The (im)possibilities of comic imagination / Aswathy Senan -- Reading girl- and womanhood in the classic Flemish family comics series Jommeke : A conversation with Katrien De Graeve and Sara De Vuyst / Michel De Dobbeleer -- Death and the maiden : some notes concerning Charlotte Salomon's Leben? oder Theater? / Sébastien Conard -- Developing a style of her own : Mophead by Selina Tusitala Marsh (2019) / Marine Berthiot -- Conclusion / Eva Van de Wiele -- Afterword: picturing girlhood / Julia Round.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9789462703612
  • 9462703612