Graphic Girlhoods - Visualizing Education and Violence

Drawing on a dynamic set of "graphic texts of girlhood," Elizabeth Marshall identifies the locations, cultural practices, and representational strategies through which schoolgirls experience real and metaphorical violence. How is the schoolgirl made legible through violence in graphic texts of girlhood? What knowledge about girlhood and violence are under erasure within mainstream images and scripts about the schoolgirl? In what ways has the schoolgirl been pictured in graphic narratives to communicate feminist knowledge, represent trauma, and/or testify about social violence? Graphic Girlhoods focuses on these questions to make visible and ultimately question how sexism, racism and other forms of structural violence inform education and girlhood. From picture books about mean girls like The Recess Queen or graphic novels like Jane, The Fox and Me to Ronald Searle's ghastly pupils in the St. Trinian's cartoons to graphic memoirs about schooling by adult women, such as Ruby Bridges's Through My Eyes and Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons texts for and about the schoolgirl stake a claim in ongoing debates about gender and education.

List of contents

List of Figures

Introduction
PART I: Cultural Pedagogies of Girlhood

1 Recess Queens: Mean Girls in Visual-Verbal Texts

2 Nice White Girls: Violence and Racial Masquerade in Nancy Drew

3 Picturing Rape Culture: Little Red Riding Hood and School Dress Codes
PART 2: Resistant Schoolgirls

4 Deschooling Girlhood: Fairy Tales, Trauma, and Education in Lynda Barry’s Comics

5 Schoolgirl Activists: Documenting Segregation and Residential Schooling in Auto/biographical Picture Books

6 Reframing Schoolgirls: Social Violence and Justice in Words and Pictures

7 Final Lessons: Reading Like a Girl
Bibliography

Index

About the author

Dr. Elizabeth Marshall is an Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Summary

Drawing on a dynamic set of "graphic texts of girlhood," Elizabeth Marshall identifies the locations, cultural practices, and representational strategies through which schoolgirls experience real and metaphorical violence. How is the schoolgirl made legible through violence in graphic texts of girlhood? What knowledge about girlhood and violence

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Marshall, Marshall Elizabeth
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9780367592950
• ISBN: 978-0-367-59295-0
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Children's Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Moral and social purpose of education, Teaching of a specific subject, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Children's & teenage literature studies, Moral & social purpose of education, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general