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Comic Book Women - Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age (Paperback)
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Comic Book Women - Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age (Paperback)
Series: World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
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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.
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