The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies (Paperback)

Contents List of Illustrations List of Contributors Genderand Sexuality in Comics: The Told, Untold Stories Frederick Luis Aldama Part I: Interrogating Restrictive Frames Chapter 1: Translating Masculinity: The Significance of the Frontier in American Superheroes Patrick L. Hamilton Chapter 2: Black Boys and Black Girls in Comics: An Affective and Historical Mapping of Intertwined Stereotypes Maaheen Ahmed Chapter 3: Pocket-Sized Pornography: Representations of Sexual Violence and Masculinity in Tijuana Bibles Erin Barry Chapter 4: The Comic-Strip in Advertising: Persuasion, Gender, Sexuality Constance de Silva Chapter 5: Real Men Choose Vasectomy: Questioning and Redefining Mexican National Masculinity in Los Supermachos, from Rius to Anonymous Authors Annick Pellegrin Chapter 6: Marriage, Domesticity and Superheroes (For Better or Worse) Jeffrey A. Brown Chapter 7: "Is that a monster between your legs or are ya just happy to see me?": Sex, Subjectivity, and the Superbody in the　Marvel Swimsuit Special Anna F. Peppard Part II: Ethnoracial Queer and Feminist Space Clearing Gestures Chapter 8: Life Out Loud in the Closet: The Grotesque as Latinx Imagination in Cristy C. Road’s Spit and Passion Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado Chapter 9: Graphic (Narrative) Presentations of Violence Against Indigenous Women: Responses to the MMIW Crisis in North America James J. Donahue Chapter 10: From "Accidental" Autobiography to Comics Activism: Tracing the Development of an Andalusian-Chinese Feminism in the Work of Comics Artist Quan Zhou Jennifer Nagtegaal Chapter 11: Plea Deal Compounds: Black Women’s Anger in "the System" of Bitch Planet Katlin Marisol Sweeney Part III: Back to the Future Chapter 12: Panels of Innocence and Experience: Reading Sexual Subjectivity Through Horror Comics Sara Austin Chapter 13: Teenage Biology 101: Serializing a Queer Girlhood in Ariel Schrag's Potential Rachel R. Miller Chapter 14: Genre, Gender, Sexual, Textual and Visual, and Real Representations in Bande Dessinee C(h)ris Reyns-Chikuma Chapter 15: A Comics Ecriture Feminine: Anke Feuchtenberger’s Feminist Graphic Expression Elizabeth "Biz" Nijdam Chapter 16: "I’m Trapped In Here!" Gender Performativity and Affect in Emma Rios's I.D. Mikel Bermello Isusi Chapter 17: Empirical Looking: Situating the Multiple Elements of Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout as Vehicles for Articulating a Place for Women in Science Lisa DeTora Part IV: Counterpublics Chapter 18: From Anodyne Animals to Filthy Beasts: Defying and Defiling Safety, Sanctity, and Sexual Suppression in Underground Animal Comics Daniel F. Yezbick Chapter 19: Wonder Woman’s Complicated Relationship with Feminism George Thomas Chapter 20: "Part of Something Bigger": Ms./Captain Marvel Carolyn Cocca Chapter 21: Higher, Further, Faster Baby! The Feminist Evolution of Carol Danvers from Comics to Film Sam Langsdale Chapter 22: Female Fans, Female Creators, and Female Superheroes: The Semiotics of Changing Gender Dynamics Angela Ndalianis Chapter 23: Public-Facing Feminisms: Subverting the Lettercol in Bitch Planet Brenna Clarke Gray Chapter 24: "I’d Like Everything That’s Bad For Me!": Tank Girl’s Cracks in Patriarchal Pop Culture Susan Kerns Chapter 25: Falling In or Stepping Out: Little Red Formation as Agentic Gender Construction in Lumberjanes Karly Marie Grice Part V: Worldly Interventions Chapter 26: "A Revelation Not of the Flesh, but of the Mind": Performing Queer Textuality in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home Maite Urcaregui Chapter 27: BLOOD, or: Gender and Nation in the Contemporary Polish Comic Kalina Kupczynska Chapter 28: My Grandmother Collects Memories: Gender and Remembrance in Hispanic Graphic Narratives Radmila (Lale) Stefkova Chapter 29: Feminist Riots and Gay Giants: The Mayo Feminista and Cultural Context of Contemporary Queer Chilean Comics Sam Cannon Chapter 30: Questioning Obscenity: The Place of "Pussy" in Manga and the World Lindsey Stirek Chapter 31: See Him, See Her, See Xir: LGBTQ Visibility in Sh?nen Manga at the Turn of the Century Zachary Michael Lewis Dean Chapter 32: An Age of Sparkle and Drama: Exploring Gender Identities and Cultural Narratives in 1970s Sh?jo Manga Lorna Piatti-Farnell 　 Part VI: Queer and Feminist Intermedial Textures Chapter 33: Representing the Extreme End-point of Sexual Violence: ethical strategies in Phoebe Gloeckner’s La Tristeza Rebecca Scherr Chapter 34: The People Upstairs: Space, Memory, and the Queered Family in My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris Shiamin Kwa Chapter 35: Fat Bats, Postpunks, and Ice Witches: Afrogoth and the Undead Music of Militia Vox and the Comix of Calyn Pickens Rich Deborah Elizabeth Whaley Chapter 36: Catherine Meurisse and the Gender of Art Margaret C. Flinn Chapter 37: My Life With Toys: An Academic Esai into the Queer Multipurposing of Toys as Interrupted by the Author’s Life Jonathan Alexandratos Chapter 38: "Bobby…You’re Gay": Marvel’s Iceman, Performativity, Continuity, and Queer Visibility Bryan Bove