[Commlist] New book: Invisible Presence: The Representation of Women in French-Language Comics

Intellect is pleased to share that /Invisible Presence: The 
Representation of Women in French-Language Comics 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/invisible-presence>/*/,/* by Catriona 
MacLeod, is now available in ebook and hardback worldwide. Paperback 
coming Fall 2022!

/Invisible Presence/ looks at the representation of female characters in 
French comics from their first appearance in 1905. Organised into three 
sections, the book looks at the representation of women as main 
characters created by men, as secondary characters created by men, and 
as characters created by women.

Using feminist scholarship, especially from well-known film and literary 
theorists, the book asks what it means to draw women from within a 
phallocentric, male-dominated paradigm, as well as how the particular 
medium of bande dessinée, its form as well as its history, has shaped 
dominant representations of women. This book will appeal both to an 
academic and to a more general readership with an interest in popular 
comic art.


*_Table of Contents
_*
*Introduction *– Women Problems

*SECTION 1: PRIMARY WOMEN CHARACTERS
*
*Chapter 1:* Bécassine to Barbarella…But What Came in Between? An 
Introductory History of Female Primary Characters in the Francophone 
Bande Dessinée
*Chapter 2: *Bécassine: The First Lady of Bande Dessinée?
*Chapter 3:* Barbarella: Study of a Sex-Symbol
*Chapter 4:* Solving the Mystery of Adèle Blanc-Sec

*SECTION 2: SECONDARY WOMEN CHARACTERS
*
*Preface:* A Brief Consideration of the Minor
*Chapter 5:* Beyond Bonemine: An Introductory History of Female 
Secondary Characters in the Francophone Bande Dessinée
*Chapter 6:* A Study of Stereotypes: The Secondary Female Characters of 
Astérix
*Chapter 7:* Secondary Women in Urban Realism: La Vie de ma mère
*Chapter 8:* Black Secondary Women in the Works of Warnauts and Raives: 
The Eroticization of Difference
*Chapter 9:* Secondary Women in the BD New Wave: The Female Figures of 
Le Combat ordinaire

*SECTION 3: WOMEN CHARACTERS BY WOMEN CREATORS
*
*Chapter 10:* The Women that Women Draw: An Introductory History of 
Female Characters Drawn by Women Artists in the Francophone Bande Dessinée
*Chapter 11:* The Rise and Fall of Ah! Nana: France’s first and only 
all-female illustré
*Chapter 12:* Murdering the Male Gaze: Chantal Montellier’s Odile et les 
crocodiles
*Chapter 13:* Everyday extremes: Aurélia Aurita’s Fraise et chocolat

*Conclusion:* Problem Solved?
*Figures*
*Bibliography*

Please visit our website for more information:
www.intellectbooks.com/invisible-presence 
<http://www.intellectbooks.com/invisible-presence>


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