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Girls and Their Comics: Finding a Female Voice in Comic Book Narrative

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In The us, comics and comic books have frequently been associated with adolescent male fantasy—muscle-bound superheroes and scantily clad women. Nonetheless, comics have also been read and enjoyed by girls. Even as there have been many strong representations of women all over their history, the comics of today have evolved and matured, becoming a potent medium in which to explore the female experience, particularly that of girlhood and adolescence.

In Girls and Their Comics: Finding a Female Voice in Comic Book Narrative, Jacqueline Danziger-Russell contends that comics have a unique place in the representation of female characters. She discusses the overall history of the comic book, paying special attention to girls’ comics, showing how such works relate to a female point of view. Even as examining the idea that of visual literacy, Danziger-Russell asserts that comics are a very good space in which the marginalized voices of girls could also be expressed. This volume also includes a chapter on manga (Japanese comics), and is the reason the genesis of girls’ comics in Japan and their popularity with girls in the USA.

Including interviews with librarians, comic creators, and girls who read comics and manga, Girls and Their Comics is a very powerful examination of the growing interest in comic books among young females and will appeal to a wide audience, including literary theorists, teachers, librarians, popular culture and women’s studies scholars, and comic book historians.

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