Infertility comics and graphic medicine / Chinmay Murali and Sathyaraj Venkatesan.
| Author/creator | Venkatesan, Sathyaraj |
| Other author | Murali, Chinmay. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, 2021. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge focus on gender, sexuality, and comics |
| Contents | Visualizing Illness: Comics and Graphic Medicine -- Imagining the "Barren": Cultural Representations of Women's Infertility -- Hegemonic Creations: Pronatalism and the Social Construction of Motherhood -- The Infertile Body in the Clinic: Medicalization and Loss of Agency -- Traversing Infertility: Endurance and Alternatives -- Conclusion. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Venkatesan, Sathyaraj. Infertility comics and graphic medicine London ; New York : Routledge, 2021 9780367464158 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021014125 |
| ISBN | 9781000442113 (epub) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781000442106 (adobe pdf) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |