1st Edition

Comic Art and Feminism in the Baltic Sea Region Transnational Perspectives

272 Pages 59 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

272 Pages 59 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

Description

This edited collection explores how the relationship between comic art and feminism has been shaped by global, transnational, and local trends, curating analyses of multinational comic art that encompass themes of gender, sexuality, power, vulnerability, assault, abuse, taboo, and trauma. The chapters illuminate in turn the defining features of the aesthetics, materiality, and thematic content... Read more

Chapter One

Feminist Comics: An Expanding Field

Kristy Beers Fägersten, Leena Romu, Anna Nordenstam and Margareta Wallin Wictorin

Part I: Swedish feminist comics artists

Chapter Two

Swedish Feminist Comics and Cartoons at the Turn　of　the Millennium: Åsa Grennvall (Schagerström) and Joanna Rubin Dranger

Anna Nordenstam and Margareta Wallin Wictorin

Chapter Three

A Woman’s Place (in the panel): Positioning and Framing in Comics by Nina Hemmingsson and Lotta Sjöberg

Kristy Beers Fägersten

Part II: Gender, sex, and sexuality in German-language comics

Chapter Four

A Brief History　of　Girlsplaining? Reading Klengel, Patu and Schrupp with Strömquist. Or: Reflecting Visualities　of　Gender and Feminism in German-Language Comics

Marina Rauchenbacher and Katharina Serles

Chapter　Five

"What’s in a name?": Anke Feuchtenberger’s　Roses　and the Mythic Methodologies　of　her Feminist Comic Art

Elizabeth　"Biz" Nijdam

Chapter　Six

For Sex-Positivity? Potential and limits of representating　Sex and Sexuality in Ulli Lust’s Comics Across Genres

Anna　Vuorinne

Part III: Non-binary and queer expression in comics

Chapter　Seven

Strategies　of　Ambiguity: Non-Binary Figurations in German-Language Comics

Anna　Beckmann

Chapter　Eight

Feminist and Queer Aesthetics in Tove Jansson’s Moomin Comics

Mike　Classon Frangos

Part IV: Addressing violence in Finnish comics

Chapter　Nine

Feminist Education and Empowerment: The Individual and the Collective in Emmi Nieminen and Johanna Vehkoo’s Comic on Online Violence

Ralf　Kauranen and Olli Löytty

Chapter　Ten

The Narrative Complexity of Showing and Telling Sexual Harassment and Violence in Kati Kovács’s Comics

Leena　Romu

Part V: Memoir and remembering in Polish and Russian comics

Chapter　Eleven

"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

Małgorzata □Olsza

Chapter　Twelve

Staring Back at History: Varvara Pomidor and Russian Comics

José Alaniz