Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine

Description:

"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. Through a scholarly examination of the artists' use of visual-verbal codes of the comics medium in narrating their physical ordeals and affective challenges occasioned by infertility, the book seeks to foreground the intricacies of gender identity, embodiment, subjectivity and illness experience. Providing long-overdue scholarly attention on the perspectives of autobiographical and comics studies, the authors examine the gendered nature of the infertility experience and the notion of motherhood as an ideological force which interpolates socio-cultural discourses, accentuating the potential of graphic medicine as a creative space for the infertile women to voice their hitherto silenced perspectives on childlessness with force and urgency. This interdisciplinary volume will be of interest for scholars and students in comics studies, the health humanities, literature and women's and gender studies, and will also be suitable for readers in visual studies and narrative medicine"--

subjects: Literature,  Comic books, strips,  History and criticism,  Medical comics,  Autobiographical comic books, strips,  Infertility, Female, in literature,  Autobiography,  Women authors,  Women in literature,  Literature and medicine,  Female Infertility,  Bandes dessinées autobiographiques,  Histoire et critique,  Infertilité féminine dans la littérature,  Écrits de femmes autobiographiques,  Femmes dans la littérature,  Littérature et médecine,  Infertilité féminine,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies