Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies

<p><em>The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies</em> is a comprehensive, global, and interdisciplinary examination of the essential relationship between Gender, Sexuality, Comics, and Graphic Novels.</p><p>A 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.</p><p>Comics 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 field of inquiry makes this an essential text for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers studying Comics Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Literary Studies, and Cultural Studies. </p> <p>Part 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 <i>Los Supermachos</i>, from Rius to Anonymous Authors; Chapter 6: Marriage, Domesticity and Superheroes (For Better or Worse); <b></b>Chapter 7: "Is that a monster between your legs or are ya just happy to see me?": Sex, Subjectivity, and the Superbody in the <i>Marvel Swimsuit Special</i>; 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 <em>Spit and Passion</em>;<em> </em>Chapter 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 <em>Bitch Planet</em>;<em> </em>Part 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 <i>Potential</i>; Chapter 14: Genre, Gender, Sexual, Textual and Visual, and Real Representations in <i>Bande Dessinée</i>; Chapter 15: A Comics <em>Écriture Féminine</em>: Anke Feuchtenberger’s Feminist Graphic Expression; Chapter 16: "I’m Trapped In Here!" Gender Performativity and Affect in Emma Ríos's <em>I.D.</em>; Chapter 17: Empirical Looking: Situating the Multiple Elements of <i>Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout</i> 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 <i>Bitch Planet</i>; 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 <i>Lumberjanes</i>; Part V: Worldly Interventions; Chapter 26: "A Revelation Not of the Flesh, but of the Mind": Performing Queer Textuality in Alison Bechdel’s <i>Fun Home</i>; <b></b>Chapter 27: <em>BLOOD</em>, or: Gender and Nation in the Contemporary Polish Comic; <b></b>Chapter 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<b>; </b>Chapter 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 <em>La Tristeza</em>;<em> </em>Chapter 34: The People Upstairs: Space, Memory, and the Queered Family in <i>My Favorite Thing Is Monsters </i>by 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 <i>Esai</i> 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</p>