Showing 1–16 of 1000 resultsSorted by popularity
-
-
Imagining Motherhood in the Twenty-First Century
$200.00Images, representations and constructions of mothers have historically shaped and continue to shape the way we imagine the institution of motherhood and the experience of mothering. The various contributions included in this volume consider the diversity of maternal images and narratives that circulate in literature, the arts and popular culture and analyse how they reflect…
-
Imagining Motherhood in the Twenty-First Century
$57.99Images, representations and constructions of mothers have historically shaped and continue to shape the way we imagine the institution of motherhood and the experience of mothering. The various contributions included in this volume consider the diversity of maternal images and narratives that circulate in literature, the arts and popular culture and analyse how they reflect…
-
-
The Routledge Companion to Comics
$65.99This cutting-edge handbook brings together an international roster of scholars to examine many facets of comics and graphic novels. Contributor essays provide authoritative, up-to-date overviewsof the major topics and questions within comic studies, offering readers a truly global approach to understanding the field. Essays examine: the history of the temporal, geographical, and formal development of…
-
Superhero Bodies: Identity, Materiality, Transformation
$59.99This volume attends to the physicality of superheroes: it examines how ideologies of race, gender and disability are signified or destabilized in the physicality of the superhero and presents an exploration of superheroes across multiple media forms including comics, film, television, literature and the graphic novel.
-
“Suffering Sappho!”: Lesbian Content and Queer Female Characters in Comics
$200.00Comics have been an important locus of queer female identity, community, and politics for generations. Whether taking the form of newspaper strips, comic books, or graphic novels and memoirs, the medium has a long history of featuring female same-sex attraction, relationships, and identity. This book explores the past place, current presence, and possible future status…
-
“Suffering Sappho!”: Lesbian Content and Queer Female Characters in Comics
$57.99Comics have been an important locus of queer female identity, community, and politics for generations. Whether taking the form of newspaper strips, comic books, or graphic novels and memoirs, the medium has a long history of featuring female same-sex attraction, relationships, and identity. This book explores the past place, current presence, and possible future status…
-
Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes
$200.00Drawing upon her long career as a formidable feminist critic yet wearing her knowledge lightly, Lillian Robinson finds the essence of wonder women in our non-animated three-dimensional world. This book will delight and provoke anyone interested in the history of feminism or the importance of comics in contemporary life.
-
Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes
$55.99Drawing upon her long career as a formidable feminist critic yet wearing her knowledge lightly, Lillian Robinson finds the essence of wonder women in our non-animated three-dimensional world. This book will delight and provoke anyone interested in the history of feminism or the importance of comics in contemporary life.
-
I Promised Not to Tell: Raising a transgender child
$15.99A Readers’ Favorite 2017 Bronze Medal Award Winner. Cheryl Evans and her husband Jim raised their children telling them: “You can be anything and do anything you want in life.” They just never expected to learn that what their youngest daughter desired most in the world was to be a boy. Experience this powerful, raw…
-
Representing Acts of Violence in Comics
$59.99This book is part of a nuanced two-volume examination of the ways in which violence in comics is presented in different texts, genres, cultures and contexts. Representing Acts of Violence in Comics raises questions about depiction and the act of showing violence, and discusses the ways in which individual moments of violence develop, and are…
-
Contexts of Violence in Comics
$59.99This book is part of a nuanced two-volume examination of the ways in which violence in comics is presented in different texts, genres, cultures and contexts. Contexts of Violence in Comics asks the reader to consider the ways in which violence and its representations may be enabled or restricted by the contexts in which they…
-
Critical Approaches to Horror Comic Books: Red Ink in the Gutter
$200.00This volume explores how horror comic books have negotiated with the social and cultural anxieties framing a specific era and geographical space.
-
Critical Approaches to Horror Comic Books: Red Ink in the Gutter
$57.99This volume explores how horror comic books have negotiated with the social and cultural anxieties framing a specific era and geographical space.
-
Destruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love: Exploring Y: The Last Man and Saga
$49.99Destruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love: Exploring Y: The Last Man and Saga offers a creative and accessible exploration of the two comic book series, examining themes like nonviolence; issues of gender and war; heroes and moral failures; forgiveness and seeking justice; and the importance of diversity and religious pluralism.