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

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...

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Superior document:Studies in Comics and Cartoons
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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.)
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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.