Book ID: CBB827890000

Graphic Reproduction: A Comics Anthology (2018)

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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.

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Review Alan S. Weber (2019) Review of "Graphic Reproduction: A Comics Anthology". Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology (pp. 423-424). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Patrick Ellis
Evans, Jennifer
Wendland, Claire
Meehan, Ciara
Lantos, John D.
Vivienne Moore
Journals
British Journal for the History of Science
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Science, Technology and Human Values
Renaissance Quarterly
Public Understanding of Science
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Publishers
Ashgate
Vanderbilt University Press
University of Toronto Press
University of Chicago Press
University of California Press
Routledge
Concepts
Obstetrics and pregnancy
Childbirth
Reproduction
Medicine
Visual representation; visual communication
Public health
People
Dick-Read, Grantly
Equicola, Mario
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
Renaissance
20th century, late
18th century
Places
United States
England
Malawi
Wales
South Africa
Italy
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