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Routledge Focus on Gender, Sexuality, and Comics


About the Series

Routledge Focus on Gender, Sexuality, and Comics publishes original short-form research in the areas of gender and sexuality studies as they relate to comics cultures past and present. Topics in the series cover printed as well as digital media, mainstream and alternative comics industries, transmedia adaptions, comics consumption, and various comics-associated cultural fields and forms of expression. Gendered and sexual identities are considered as intersectional and always in conversation with issues concerning race, ethnicity, ability, class, age, nationality, and religion.

Books in the series are between 25,000 and 45,000 words and can be single-authored, co-authored, or edited collections. For longer works, the companion series Routledge Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Comics publishes full-length books between 60,000 to 90,000 words.

For more information please contact the series editor or Routledge editor ([email protected])

 

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Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fanfiction A Fastball Special

Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fanfiction: A Fastball Special

1st Edition

By Christopher Michael Roman
May 31, 2023

Queering Wolverine in Comics and Fanfiction: A Fastball Special interrogates the ways in which the Marvel Comics character Wolverine is a queer hero and examines his representation as an open, vulnerable, and kinship-oriented queer hero in both comics and fanfiction. Despite claims that Wolverine ...

Cosplayers Gender and Identity

Cosplayers: Gender and Identity

1st Edition

By A. Luxx Mishou
January 09, 2023

Cosplayers: Gender and Identity is an examination of identity practices in cosplay, as expressed by cosplayers themselves. It challenges the assumed correlation between cosplay and cosplayer identity and considers the lived experiences of cosplayers engaging in the fan practice of sartorial ...

Gender and Sexuality in Israeli Graphic Novels

Gender and Sexuality in Israeli Graphic Novels

1st Edition

By Matt Reingold
January 09, 2023

This book explores how Israeli graphic novelists present depictions of masculinity and femininity that differ from conventional portrayals of gender in Israeli society, rejecting the ways that hypermasculinity and docile femininity have come to be associated with men and women. The book is the ...

Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine

Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine

1st Edition

By Chinmay Murali, Sathyaraj Venkatesan
January 09, 2023

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 ...

Batman and the Joker Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture

Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture

1st Edition

By Chris Richardson
April 01, 2022

This cultural analysis of visual and narrative elements within Batman comics provides an important exploration of the ways readers and creators negotiate gender, identity, and sexuality in popular culture. Thematic chapters investigate how artists, writers, and fans engage with, challenge, and ...

Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel Militarism and Feminism in Comics and Film

Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel: Militarism and Feminism in Comics and Film

1st Edition

By Carolyn Cocca
February 02, 2022

This book explores representations of Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel in comics and film, as well as political struggles over these works, to illuminate contemporary cultural concerns about gender, sexuality, race, migration, imperialism, and war. It focuses on the only two female superheroes who ...

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