Graphic Reproduction - A Comics Anthology (Paperback)

This comics anthology delves deeply into the messy and often taboo subject of human reproduction. Featuring work by luminaries such as Carol Tyler, Alison Bechdel, and Joyce Farmer, Graphic Reproduction is an illustrated challenge to dominant cultural narratives about conception, pregnancy, and childbirth. The comics here expose the contradictions, complexities, and confluences around diverse individual experiences of the entire reproductive process, from trying to conceive to child loss and childbirth. Jenell Johnson's introduction situates comics about reproduction within the growing field of graphic medicine and reveals how they provide a discursive forum in which concepts can be explored and presented as uncertainties rather than as part of a prescribed or expected narrative. Through comics such as Lyn Chevley's groundbreaking "Abortion Eve," Bethany Doane's "Pushing Back: A Home Birth Story," Leah Hayes's "Not Funny Ha-Ha," and "Losing Thomas & Ella: A Father's Story," by Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower, the collection explores a myriad of reproductive experiences and perspectives. The result is a provocative, multifaceted portrait of one of the most basic and complicated of all human experiences, one that can be hilarious and heartbreaking. Featuring work by well-known comics artists as well as exciting new voices, this incisive collection is an important and timely resource for understanding how reproduction intersects with sociocultural issues. The afterword and a section of discussion exercises and questions make it a perfect teaching tool.

General

Imprint:	Pennsylvania State University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Graphic Medicine
Release date:	May 2018
First published:	2018
Editors:	Jenell Johnson (Mellon-Morgridge Professor of the Humanities)
Afterword by:	Susan Merrill Squier (Julia Gregg Brill Professor of English and Women's Studies)
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-0-271-08094-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Special features > Graphic novels Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences > Human reproduction, growth & development > General Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Gynaecology & obstetrics > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > Personal & public health > Birth control, contraception, family planning
LSN:	0-271-08094-9
Barcode:	9780271080949

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