Typical Girls : : The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips / / Susan E. Kirtley.

• Superior document: Studies in Comics and Cartoons
• VerfasserIn: Kirtley, Susan E.
• Place / Publishing House: [s.l.] : : The Ohio State University Press,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Comics and Cartoons
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Women's Liberation Movement in comic strips -- Crocodilites and Cathy: the worst of both worlds -- Visualizing motherhood in the comic frame: For better or for worse -- Punk rock girl: constituting community in Barry's Girls and boys -- Nicole Hollander's Sylvia: Menippean satire in the mainstream -- "The lesbian rule" in Alison Bechdel's Dykes to watch out for -- Establishing community through dis/association in Barbara Brandon-Croft's Where I'm coming from -- Something from nothing: the inductive argument of Stone soup.