Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips

Winner, 2022 Charles Hatfield Award from the Comics Studies Society

In the years following 1975, a group of female-created comic strips came to national attention in a traditionally male-dominated medium. Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips uncovers the understudied and developing history of these strips, defining and exploring the ramifications of this expression of women's roles at a time of great change in history and in comic art. This impressive, engaging, and timely study illustrates how these comics express the complexities of women's experiences, especially as such experiences were shaped by shifting and often competing notions of womanhood and feminism. Including the comics of Lynn Johnston (For Better or For Worse), Cathy Guisewite (Cathy), Nicole Hollander (Sylvia), Lynda Barry (Ernie Pook's Comeek), Barbara Brandon-Croft (Where I'm Coming From), Alison Bechdel (Dykes to Watch Out For), and Jan Eliot (Stone Soup), Typical Girls is an important history of the representation of womanhood and women's rights in popular comic strips.

Author: Susan E. Kirtley
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 05/13/2021
Pages: 276
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780814257937
ISBN10: 0814257933
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Comics & Graphic Novels
- Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes | Women
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 20th Century

About the Author
Susan Kirtley is Professor of English at Portland State University.

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