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

Tue Mar 01 20:44:44 GMT 2022





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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