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Abate, Michelle Ann, Karly Marie Grice, and Christine N. Stamper, eds. “Suffering Sappho!”: Lesbian Content and Queer Female Characters in Comics. London, New York: Routledge, 2021. 
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Resource type: Book
Language: en: English
ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9780367704377
BibTeX citation key: Abate2021
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Categories: General
Keywords: Collection of essays, Gender
Creators: Abate, Grice, Stamper
Publisher: Routledge (London, New York)
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Abstract
Comics have been an important locus of queer female identity, community, and politics for generations. Whether taking the form of newspaper strips, comic books, or graphic novels and memoirs, the medium has a long history of featuring female same-sex attraction, relationships, and identity. This book explores the past place, current presence, and possible future status of lesbianism in comics.
What role has the medium played in the cultural construction, social (and literal) visibility, and political advocacy of same-sex female attraction and identity? Likewise, how have these features changed over time? How have nonheteronormative female characters been raced, classed, and gendered? What is the relationship between lesbian comics and queer comics? What role has the medium played in establishing the distinction between lesbian and queer female identity as well as blurring, reinforcing, or policing it? What roles have queer female comics, characters, and cartoonists played in the origins, history, and evolution of sequential art as a genre? The essays in this book inspire an engagement with these and other questions as well as provide an exploration of possible answers. They provide a compelling examination of a variety of important titles, characters, creators, topics, themes, and issues.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies.
  
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