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Comics and Norm-Critical Pedagogy: Gender, Sexuality, and Cultural Identity book cover

1st Edition

Comics and Norm-Critical Pedagogy Gender, Sexuality, and Cultural Identity

Edited By Robert Aman, Lars Wallner Copyright 2026
150 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

150 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Comics and Norm-Critical Pedagogy: Gender, Sexuality, and Cultural Identity explores how comics can challenge societal norms and serve as powerful tools for critical education. This edited collection brings together essays examining how graphic narratives question dominant perspectives on gender, sexuality, ethnicity, mental health, and other intersecting identity categories. It highlights... Read more

List of Contributors

1.      Introduction: Comics, Norms, and Pedagogy
Robert Aman & Lars Wallner

2.      ‘The World Needs me!’: Comics as Norm-Critical Sex Education
Rikke Platz Cortsen

3.      The (Dis)comforts of Misogyny and the Monstrosity of Reproduction in Jonathan and Joshua Luna’s Girls
Małgorzata Olsza

4.      Defiance and Utopia: The Curational and Pedagogical Potential of a Queer Comics Exhibition 
Lotta Kähkönen, Henry-Paul Ontto-Panula & Anna Vuorinne

5.      Transmasculine Girlhood in Graphic Memoir 
Elric Paauw 

6.      Swedish Feminist Manga, Boys Love, and Comics Education 
Mike Classon Frangos 

7.      Criticizing the Norm in the Pampas. Inodoro Pereyra, el renegau and the Myth of the Argentine Cowboy 
Cecilia Battauz

8.      Norms of Comics Production: Swedish-speaking women cartoonists in Finnish comics history 
Ralf Kauranen & Leena Romu 

9.      Using Instagram-comics (in dialogue with walls) to educate about and challenge norms, discrimination and privileges – the cases of Jamaica and Honduras 
Mario Faust-Scalisi 

10. Young Adult Comics and Paradigm Shift
Houman Sadri

Index

Biography

Robert Aman is a Senior Associate Professor in Education at Linköping University, Sweden. He primarily conducts research on ideology and the politics of representation in comics.

Lars Wallner is an Associate Professor at Linköping University, Sweden, working in the field of Pedagogic Practices. His research explores the use of comics, games and popular fiction, mainly regarding education and social interaction.

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