[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 paperback.

This book looks at the representation of female characters in French 
comics from their first appearance in 1905. Organized 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. It focuses on female characters, both 
primary and secondary, in the francophone comic or bande dessinée, as 
well as the work of female bande dessinée creators more generally. Until 
now these characters and creators have received relatively little 
scholarly attention; this book is set to change the status quo. 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.


*_Table of Contents
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*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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