{"product_id":"typical-girls-susan-e-kirtley-9780814257937","title":"Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2022 Charles Hatfield Award from the Comics Studies Society\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the years following 1975, a group of female-created comic strips came to national attention in a traditionally male-dominated medium. \u003ci\u003eTypical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips \u003c\/i\u003euncovers the understudied and developing history of these strips, defining and exploring the ramifications of this expression of women's roles at a time of great change in history and in comic art. This impressive, engaging, and timely study illustrates how these comics express the complexities of women's experiences, especially as such experiences were shaped by shifting and often competing notions of womanhood and feminism. Including the comics of Lynn Johnston (\u003ci\u003eFor Better or For Worse\u003c\/i\u003e), Cathy Guisewite (\u003ci\u003eCathy\u003c\/i\u003e), Nicole Hollander (\u003ci\u003eSylvia\u003c\/i\u003e), Lynda Barry (\u003ci\u003eErnie Pook's Comeek\u003c\/i\u003e), Barbara Brandon-Croft (\u003ci\u003eWhere I'm Coming From\u003c\/i\u003e), Alison Bechdel (\u003ci\u003eDykes to Watch Out For\u003c\/i\u003e), and Jan Eliot (\u003ci\u003eStone Soup\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eTypical Girls \u003c\/i\u003eis an important history of the representation of womanhood and women's rights in popular comic strips.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan E. Kirtley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814257933\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814257937\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/13\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2022","brand":"Susan E. Kirtley","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048893837567,"sku":"9780814257937","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8490db4f-f99f-4592-a13d-9c49820e442b.jpg?v=1684998431","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/typical-girls-susan-e-kirtley-9780814257937","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}