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Murali, Chinmay and Sathyaraj Venkatesan. Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine[u]. Routledge Focus on Gender, Sexuality, and Comics. London, New York: Routledge, 2022. 
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Resource type: Book
Language: en: English
ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9780367464158
BibTeX citation key: Murali2022
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Categories: General
Keywords: Autobiography, Gender, Illness, Medicine
Creators: Murali, Venkatesan
Publisher: Routledge (London, New York)
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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 to 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.
  
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