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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Susan E KirtleyPublisher: Ohio State University Press Imprint: Ohio State University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.60cm Weight: 0.381kg ISBN: 9780814257937ISBN 10: 0814257933 Pages: 276 Publication Date: 13 May 2021 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsEisner-Award-winner Susan Kirtley returns with a must-read book on how female-created comic strips changed the perceptions of womanhood and women's rights. As that fight continues, Kirtley's book offers a reminder of where the struggle has been and where it needs to go from here. --Philip Nel, author of Was the Cat in the Hat Black? The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books Typical Girls reads comic strips alongside contemporary discourses of womanhood, motherhood, and feminisms, resulting in vital interpretations that forcefully remind us of how political discourses were expressed in newspaper comics. --Lara Saguisag, author of Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics An excellent overview of and rumination upon an aspect of comics that is often overlooked, and as Kirtley stresses is a baton that ought to be taken up by other scholars of both feminism and comics studies. The texts she chooses to examine are both important and telling: important because of the ways in which they reflect and speak back to the culture of the times in which they were produced and telling because they are so few and far-between. --Houman Sadri, MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture Typical Girls reads comic strips alongside contemporary discourses of womanhood, motherhood, and feminisms, resulting in vital interpretations that forcefully remind us of how political discourses were expressed in newspaper comics. --Lara Saguisag, author of Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics Eisner-Award-winner Susan Kirtley returns with a must-read book on how female-created comic strips changed the perceptions of womanhood and women's rights. As that fight continues, Kirtley's book offers a reminder of where the struggle has been and where it needs to go from here. --Philip Nel, author of Was the Cat in the Hat Black? The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books Author InformationSusan Kirtley is Professor of English at Portland State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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