Squier, Susan Merrill (Author)
Johnson, Jenell M. (Editor)
This comics anthology delves deeply into the messy and often taboo subject of human reproduction. Featuring work by luminaries such as Carol Tyler, Alison Bechdel, and Joyce Farmer, Graphic Reproduction is an illustrated challenge to dominant cultural narratives about conception, pregnancy, and childbirth.The comics here expose the contradictions, complexities, and confluences around diverse individual experiences of the entire reproductive process, from trying to conceive to child loss and childbirth. Jenell Johnson’s introduction situates comics about reproduction within the growing field of graphic medicine and reveals how they provide a discursive forum in which concepts can be explored and presented as uncertainties rather than as part of a prescribed or expected narrative. Through comics such as Lyn Chevley’s groundbreaking “Abortion Eve,” Bethany Doane’s “Pushing Back: A Home Birth Story,” Leah Hayes’s “Not Funny Ha-Ha,” and “Losing Thomas & Ella: A Father’s Story,” by Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower, the collection explores a myriad of reproductive experiences and perspectives. The result is a provocative, multifaceted portrait of one of the most basic and complicated of all human experiences, one that can be hilarious and heartbreaking.Featuring work by well-known comics artists as well as exciting new voices, this incisive collection is an important and timely resource for understanding how reproduction intersects with sociocultural issues. The afterword and a section of discussion exercises and questions make it a perfect teaching tool.
...MoreReview Alan S. Weber (2019) Review of "Graphic Reproduction: A Comics Anthology". Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology (pp. 423-424).
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Jennifer Evans;
Ciara Meehan;
(2017)
Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
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Patrick Ellis;
(2017)
A Cinema for the Unborn: Moving Pictures, Mental pictures and Electra Sparks's New Thought Film Theory
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David A. Kirby;
(2017)
Regulating Cinematic Stories about Reproduction: Pregnancy, Childbirth, Abortion and Movie Censorship in the US, 1930–1958
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Vivienne Moore;
Megan Warin;
(2022)
The Reproduction of Shame: Pregnancy, Nutrition and Body Weight in the Translation of Developmental Origins of Adult Disease
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Andrew Graciano;
(2019)
Visualizing the Body in Art, Anatomy, and Medicine since 1800: Models and Modeling
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Crowther-Heyck, Kathleen;
(2002)
“Be Fruitful and Mulitiply”: Genesis and Generation in Reformation Germany
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Brodsky, Phyllis;
(2008)
Control of Childbirth: Women Versus Medicine Through the Ages
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Roberts, Julie;
(2012)
The Visualised Foetus: A Cultural and Political Analysis of Ultrasound Imagery
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Colantuono, Anthony;
(2010)
Titian, Colonna and the Renaissance Science of Procreation: Equicola's Seasons of Desire
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Locke, Simon;
(2012)
Colouring in the “Black-Box”: Alternative Renderings of Scientific Visualisations in Two Comic Book Cosmologies
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Claire L. Wendland;
(2022)
Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles
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John D. Lantos;
Diane S. Lauderdale;
(2015)
Preterm Babies, Fetal Patients, and Childbearing Choices
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Chen-I. Kuan;
(March 2020)
Understanding Technology in Birth Care from the Experiences of Taiwanese Obstetricians
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Miranda R. Waggoner;
(2017)
The Zero Trimester: Pre-Pregnancy Care and the Politics of Reproductive Risk
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Paula A. Michaels;
(2018)
Childbirth and Trauma, 1940s–1980s
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Isabel M. Córdova;
(2017)
Pushing in Silence: Modernizing Puerto Rico and the Medicalization of Childbirth
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Francesca Arena;
(2020)
Trouble dans la maternité: Pour une histoire des folies puerpérales, XVIIIe-XXe siècles
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Wolf, Jacqueline H.;
(2009)
Deliver Me from Pain: Anesthesia and Birth in America
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Beier, Lucinda McCray;
(2004)
Expertise and Control: Childbearing in Three Twentieth-Century Working-Class Lancashire Communities
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Jesse Olszynko-Gryn;
Patrick Ellis;
(2017)
‘A Machine for Recreating Life’: An Introduction to Reproduction on Film
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