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Format: 1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-00-303940-5 , 1-003-03940-5 , 1-000-40459-5

Series Statement: Gender, Sexuality and Comics

Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Feminist Comics: An expanding Field -- Introduction -- An Expanding Historical Context: Feminist Comic Art in Sweden and Finland -- An Expanding Geographical Perspective: Feminist Comic Art in the Baltic Sea Region -- An Expanding Collaborative Landscape: Feminist Comic Art Activity in the Baltic Sea Region -- Comic Art and Feminism in the Baltic Sea Region: Transnational Perspectives -- Notes -- References -- Part I Swedish Feminist Comics Artists -- 2 Swedish Feminist Comics and Cartoons at the Turn of the Millennium: Joanna Rubin Dranger and åsa Grennvall (schagerström) -- Introduction -- Background: The Feminist Context -- Joanna Rubin Dranger -- The Feminist Superhero "Fittflickan" -- Miss Remarkable & -- Her Career -- Åsa Grennvall (Åsa Schagerström) -- Fanzines -- Violence Against Women -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 A Woman's Place (in the Panel): Positioning and Framing in Comics by Nina Hemmingsson and Lotta Sjöberg -- Introduction -- Nina Hemmingsson and Lotta Sjöberg -- The Single-Panel Comic -- Theories of Positioning and Framing -- Positioning Theory -- Framing Theory -- Analysis -- Nina Hemmingsson -- Lotta Sjöberg -- Humour As Visual and Interactional Incongruity -- A Woman's Place: Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Part II Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in German-Language Comics -- 4 A Brief History of Girlsplaining?: Reading Klengel, Patu, and Schrupp With Strömquist. Or: Reflecting visualities of Gender and Feminism in German-Language Comics -- Introduction -- Contemporary German-Language Comics on Feminism and the Influence of Liv Strömquist's Works -- "HIDDEN in Our Culture" - Vulvas -- "maybe the Thinker COULD Look Like This" - Art Quotations. , "HAHA Just Kidding!!" - Humour -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5 "What's in a Name?": Anke Feuchtenberger's Roses and the Mythic Methodologies of Her Feminist Comic Art -- Introduction -- Anke Feuchtenberger and German Comics After 1989 -- The Myths and Myth-Making Processes of Ideology -- Feuchtenberger's Myth and Artificial Myth "Rosen" and "No Roses" -- Conclusion: Feuchtenberger's Comics Semiotics -- Notes -- References -- 6 For Sex-Positivity?: Potential and Limits of Representing Sex and Sexuality in Ulli Lust's Comics Across Genres -- Introduction -- Ulli Lust As a Comics Artist -- Thinking Sex With Sex-Positive Feminists -- Pornographic Visions of Pleasure and Fantasy -- Autobiographical Perspectives On Sexual Agency and Liberation -- Observations of Sexual Diversity in Reportage -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part III Non-Binary and Queer Expression in Comics -- 7 Strategies of Ambiguity: Non-Binary Figurations in Non-Binary-german-Language Comics -- Introduction -- Narratology, Semiotics, and Queer-Feminism in Comic Studies -- Comic Theory: Is There a Political Aesthetic of Comics? -- Strategies of Combining, Avoiding, Fragmentation, and Overlapping: Analysis -- Combining -- Avoiding -- Fragmentation and Overlapping -- Ambiguous Focalisation: "Hure h" By Anke Feuchtenberger and Kathrin De Vries -- Hure H In-Between -- Unambiguous Focalisation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 8 Feminist and Queer Aesthetics in Tove Jansson's Moomin Comics -- Introduction -- Gender and Sexuality in the Moomin Comic Strip -- Moomin's Chosen Families -- Moominmamma's Emancipation -- Moomin Masculinities and Femininities -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part IV Addressing Violence in Finnish Comics. , 9 Feminist Education and Empowerment: The Individual and the Collective in Emmi Nieminen and Johanna Vehkoo's Comic On Online Violence -- Introduction -- Feminist Comics and Comics Journalism in Finland -- Formations of the Individual and the Collective -- The Targets of Hate: Individual Case Narratives -- The Situated Knowledge of the Creator-Narrator-Characters -- The Haters As Contrast to the Collective of Women -- The Collective Risen above the Problem -- The Inclusion of the Reader -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 10 The Narrative Complexity of Showing and Telling Sexual Harassment and Violence in Kati Kovács's Comics -- Introduction -- Kovács's Comics in the Finnish Comics Scene -- Sexual Violence in Comics and the Challenge of Representation -- Naïve Protagonist, Experienced Narrator? - Narrative Tensions and the Discrepancy of Knowledge -- Unreliable Narrator in the Interaction Between Words and Images -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part V Memoir and Remembering in Polish and Russian Comics -- 11 "After all, We Must be Our Own Heroines": The Power of Feminism, Fun Home, and Form in Wanda Hagedorn's Graphic Memoir Totalnie Nie Nostalgia: Memuar -- Introduction -- The Paradoxes of Feminism in Communist Poland -- The Past Is Present: Fun Home and the Power of the Graphic Memoir Genre -- (Don't) Look at Me: The Body and the Self -- Drawing Trauma and the "Ethics of the Image" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 12 Staring Back at History: Varvara Pomidor and Russian Comics -- Introduction -- Varvara Pomidor's Pravda and Late Soviet History -- Conclusion: "I of Course Wanted a 'Lady's' Coat" -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-03-202496-8

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-367-48333-5

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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