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Graphic Girlhoods: Visualizing Education and Violence book cover

1st Edition

Graphic Girlhoods Visualizing Education and Violence

By Elizabeth Marshall Copyright 2018
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge
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Drawing on a dynamic set of "graphic texts of girlhood," Elizabeth Marshall identifies the locations, cultural practices, and representational strategies through which schoolgirls experience real and metaphorical violence. How is the schoolgirl made legible through violence in graphic texts of girlhood? What knowledge about girlhood and violence are under erasure within mainstream images and... Read more



List of Figures



Introduction



PART I: Cultural Pedagogies of Girlhood



1 Recess Queens: Mean Girls in Visual-Verbal Texts



2 Nice White Girls: Violence and Racial Masquerade in Nancy Drew



3 Picturing Rape Culture: Little Red Riding Hood and School Dress Codes



PART 2: Resistant Schoolgirls



4 Deschooling Girlhood: Fairy Tales, Trauma, and Education in Lynda Barry’s Comics



5 Schoolgirl Activists: Documenting Segregation and Residential Schooling in Auto/biographical Picture Books



6 Reframing Schoolgirls: Social Violence and Justice in Words and Pictures



7 Final Lessons: Reading Like a Girl



Bibliography



Index

Biography

Dr. Elizabeth Marshall is an Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada.

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