{"product_id":"9781032748085","title":"Queer Narratives in Contemporary American Comics: Gutter Smut","description":"\u003cp\u003eQueer Narratives in Contemporary American Comics: Gutter Smutprovides timely cultural criticism of both fiction and nonfiction graphic narratives in order to reveal how social mores related to gender and sexuality have--and haven't--shifted since the turn of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e: List of figures; Preface; Chapter 1: The Dream of a Common Visual Language: Reading Sex, Gender and Sexuality through Comics Formalism in the Early 21st Century; Chapter 2: \"I Just Don't Know How to Explain Myself: \" Liminality, Narrative Foreclosure and Censorship in Comics Memoirs by Alison Bechdel and Maia Kobabe; Chapter 3: Illustrated User Manuals for Adolescent Bodies: The Sex Positive Rhetoric of Recent Young Adult Comics for Sexual Health Education; Chapter 4: \"Language is a Map: \" Transtextuality, Transculturality and Belonging in Coming-Out Narratives by Laura Gao and Trung Le Nguyen; Chapter 5: Caging Father Earth's Unruly Daughters: Critiques of the Carceral State and Abolitionist Feminist Aesthetics in Bitch Planet; Index. Biographical Note : Sandra Cox is a professor at Southeast Missouri State University. Her work has been published in a variety of journals, including The Journal of Science Fiction and The Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. In 2021, she edited the collection Intersectional Feminist Readings of Comics. Publisher Marketing : Queer Narratives in Contemporary American Comics: Gutter Smut examines how comics reveal evolving perspectives on gender, sex and sexuality in the United States. Tracing moral panics from the mid-20th century to present-day radical cartoonists, this volume analyzes works from established creators like Alison Bechdel and Kelly Sue DeConnick alongside emerging cartoonists such as Laura Gao and Isabella Rotman. Through various feminist theoretical lenses, the book provides timely cultural criticism of both fiction and nonfiction comics, revealing how social mores related to gender have--and haven't--shifted over time. Queer Narratives in Contemporary American Comics: Gutter Smut serves as an invaluable resource for students of gender studies, cultural studies, media studies and other many other disciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover | \u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 156 | \u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2025-12-23\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46495072780419,"sku":"9781032748085","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0564\/6830\/8099\/files\/9781032748085.jpg?v=1770358289","url":"https:\/\/sebink.com\/products\/9781032748085","provider":"Sebink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}