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Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine

Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine

Murali, Chinmay
Venkatesan, Sathyaraj

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Focus on Gender, Sexuality, and Comics

General Gender StudiesGeneral SociologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0367464152
ISBN13: 9780367464158
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 14 2021
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

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.

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