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Feminist Comics Activism: A Global Phenomenon
University of Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2780-8275
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Political, Historical, Religious and Cultural Studies (from 2013). (Kulturvetenskapliga Forskargruppen, KuFo)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1639-6180
2024 (English)In: Comics, Activism, Feminisms / [ed] Anna Nordenstam, Kristy Beers Fägersten, Margareta Wallin Wictorin, London and New York: Routledge, 2024, 1, p. 1-15Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Comics can be feminist and activist. Feminist comics artists, such as the Swedish comics artist Liv Strömquist, react to gendered, political, and social issues, and as artists often do, they explore these issues with innovative expressions and reconfigure the public space. Comics, Activism, Feminisms explores on the one hand, how comic art, activism, and feminisms are intertwined from both historical and contemporary perspectives, and, on the other hand, how comic art itself can be a form of activism. In the latter case, the comics are created in cooperation between members of a network or a more organised comics collective. This anthology distinguishes between activism in comics and activist comics that are connected to a broader activist context and comics collectives. This introductory chapter provides illustrative examples from the Swedish context. The global expansion of comics, activism, and feminisms is discussed, as is research about these topics and related phenomena, such as feminist activism, visual activism, comics activism, and comics collectives. Analyses address theme, kind of story, aesthetic expression, medium, and the publication context. Comics, Activism, Feminisms consists of fourteen chapters and is divided into three sections: Activism in Comics (Part I), Comics as Political Space (Part II) and Comics Collectives (Part III). The introduction gives short summaries of the chapters.

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London and New York: Routledge, 2024, 1. p. 1-15
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Routledge Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Comics
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Comics, Activism, Feminism, Gender, Do-It-Ourselves, Comics Collectives, Comics activism
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Art History Cultural Studies Visual Arts General Literature Studies
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Cultural studies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-101785DOI: 10.4324/9781003425397-1Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85204200296ISBN: 9781003425397 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-101785DiVA, id: diva2:1901590
Available from: 2024-09-27 Created: 2024-09-27 Last updated: 2025-02-21Bibliographically approved

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