Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine

ISBN-13: 9780367464158 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 116 str.

Chinmay Murali; Sathyaraj Venkatesan

Opis

Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine examines women’s graphic memoirs on infertility, foregrounding the complex interrelationship between women’s life writing, infertility studies and graphic medicine.

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1: Visualising Illness: Comics and Graphic Medicine; Chapter 2: Imagining "the Barren": Cultural Representations of Women’s Infertility; Chapter 3: Hegemonic Creations: Pronatalism and the Social Construction of Motherhood; Chapter 4: The Infertile Body in the Clinic: Medicalisation and Loss of Agency; Chapter 5: Traversing Infertility: Endurance and Alternatives; Conclusion