Comic Book Women - Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age (Paperback)

2023 Peter C. Rollins Book Award, Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations (SWPACA) A revisionist history of women's pivotal roles as creators of and characters in comic books. The history of comics has centered almost exclusively on men. Comics historians largely describe the medium as one built by men telling tales about male protagonists, neglecting the many ways in which women fought for legitimacy on the page and in publishers’ studios. Despite this male-dominated focus, women played vital roles in the early history of comics. The story of how comic books were born and how they evolved changes dramatically when women like June Tarpé Mills and Lily Renée are placed at the center rather than at the margins of this history, and when characters such as the Black Cat, Patsy Walker, and Señorita Rio are analyzed. Comic Book Women offers a feminist history of the golden age of comics, revising our understanding of how numerous genres emerged and upending narratives of how male auteurs built their careers. Considering issues of race, gender, and sexuality, the authors examine crime, horror, jungle, romance, science fiction, superhero, and Western comics to unpack the cultural and industrial consequences of how women were represented across a wide range of titles by publishers like DC, Timely, Fiction House, and others. This revisionist history reclaims the forgotten work done by women in the comics industry and reinserts female creators and characters into the canon of comics history.

General

Imprint:	University Of Texas Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
Release date:	April 2023
First published:	2022
Authors:	Peyton Brunet • Blair Davis
Introduction by:	Trina Robbins
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-4773-2412-7
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4773-2412-7
Barcode:	9781477324127

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