Graphic Girlhoods: Visualizing Education and Violence

ISBN-13: 9780367592950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 160 str.

Elizabeth Marshall

Opis

Drawing on a dynamic set of "graphic texts of girlhood," Elizabeth Marshall identifies the locations, cultural practices, and representational strategies through which schoolgirls experience real and metaphorical violence. How is the schoolgirl made legible through violence in graphic texts of girlhood? What knowledge about girlhood and violence

Spis treści

List of Figures

Introduction

PART I: Cultural Pedagogies of Girlhood

1 Recess Queens: Mean Girls in Visual-Verbal Texts

2 Nice White Girls: Violence and Racial Masquerade in Nancy Drew

3 Picturing Rape Culture: Little Red Riding Hood and School Dress Codes

PART 2: Resistant Schoolgirls

4 Deschooling Girlhood: Fairy Tales, Trauma, and Education in Lynda Barry’s Comics

5 Schoolgirl Activists: Documenting Segregation and Residential Schooling in Auto/biographical Picture Books

6 Reframing Schoolgirls: Social Violence and Justice in Words and Pictures

7 Final Lessons: Reading Like a Girl

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Dr. Elizabeth Marshall is an Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada.