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>