femininity – Comics Studies

Body Politics: Gender and Socialization in Fun Home

April 30, 2018April 30, 2018 by mmehari

Pictured here is the image attached to Bechdel's Chapter Four: In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

by MILEN MEHARI Gender, a socially constructed concept, is heavily dependent on social policing in the production of gender norms. While social policing is typically observed as an activity that the general public inflicts onto apparent deviants of this norm, everyone takes part in the policing of gender. Even those who stray from gender norms […]

Reinforcing Gender in Baby Blues

December 1, 2016January 17, 2018 by tlarue

In a post entitled Sweet, Sweet Baby Blues, blogger Livesay discusses just what it is that makes this 26 year-old comic so lovable. The consensus, it seems, is that the strip is honest, realistic, and relatable. It’s no doubt true that many parents can identify with Darryl and Wanda MacPherson, especially given that the show is […]