Queer Girlhoods in Contemporary Comics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12975104 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mel Gibson (0000-0001-8155-3560, Northumbria University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-16 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Girlhood Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1938-8209 • E-ISSN: 1938-8322 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/ghs.2020.130102 |
| OpenAlex | W3009248702 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
In this article, I look at how comics aimed at young readers can serve to disrupt normative notions, gendered binaries, and fixed designations through featuring, or focusing on, queer girlhoods. In doing so I consider two contemporary series, Ms. Marvel and Lumberjanes. I contextualize these titles against aspects of the publishing of comics, before analyzing some of the narratives and characters in the texts in relation to queer girlhoods. I conclude that the comics offer different approaches and, therefore, differentiated reading experiences for the young readers who engage with them, but that they also form part of a wider grouping of titles that offer diverse images of young people embracing affiliations going beyond family and nation
Aesthetics · Art · Comics · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Normative · Publishing · Queer · Reading (process · Relation (database · Sociology · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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