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Comics, Activism, Feminisms book cover

1st Edition

Comics, Activism, Feminisms

Edited By Anna Nordenstam, Kristy Beers Fägersten, Margareta Wallin Wictorin Copyright 2025
206 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Comics, Activism, Feminisms explores from both historical and contemporary perspectives how comic art, activism, and feminisms are intertwined, and how comic art itself can be a form of activism. Feminist comic art emerged with the second-wave feminist movements. Today, there are comics connected to social activist movements working for change in a variety of areas. Comics artists often... Read more

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

 

1. Feminist comics activism: A global phenomenon

Anna Nordenstam and Margareta Wallin Wictorin

 

Part I: Activism in comics

2. The role of performativity in comics as activism. Meaning-making in comic art by Amalia Alvarez and Sara Granér

Mia Liinason

3. Becoming an activist in the late 1970s – Tandem artists Gunna Grähs & Eva Lindström as pioneers of Swedish feminist comics

Kristina Arnerud Mejhammar

4. “It’s the same story every morning”: Urban Tails, queerness, and the subtle activism of the weekly comic strip

Kevin Haworth

5. Exploring ARTivism: Artistic activism and subversion in George Herriman’s “Krazy Kat”

Daniela Kaufmann

6. The frontlines of feminist activism in Ukraine: Feminism and the City

Iryna Pinich and Kristy Beers Fägersten

 

Part II: Comics as political space

7. The female body politic and beyond: Feminist utopias and dystopias in American women’s comix from the 1970s

Małgorzata Olsza

8. Reimagining gender in Webtoon – queer utopianism in H-P Lehkonen’s Immortal Nerd and its reader-response

Leena Romu

 9. Comics as art practice: Directly drawing on the wall in a museological context

Meichen Lu

10. Feminist comics in circulation. Pénélope Bagieu’s inscription on the Swedish comics landscape

Ylva Lindberg

 

Part III: Comics collectives 

11. Women’s cartoons, comics, and graphic novels through the feminist lenses of DIO and friendship

Nicola Streeten 

12. Distant Connections: Connecting to the public through a zine on the gendered pandemic

Renée B. Adams

13. Moments of wonder and armies of care: Feminist attachments in Drawing the Line, Indian Women Fight Back!

Nafiseh Mousavi

14. Refugee comics and activism as comics work: The collaborative production of comics in the “Illustrating Me” project

Ralf Kauranen

 

Index

Biography

Anna Nordenstam is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Gothenburg.

Kristy Beers Fägersten is Professor of English Linguistics at Södertörn University.

Margareta Wallin Wictorin is Reader in Art History and Visual Studies affiliated with Karlstad University.

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