[Comicsstudiessociety] Book for IJOCA review: nvisible Presence: The Representation of Women in French-Language Comics,

[Mike Rhode]

Worldwide - hc in the US, or ebook worldwide - first to request to me -
Mike Rhode
mrhode at gmail.com


Invisible Presence: The Representation of Women in French-Language
Comics, by Catriona MacLeod, is available in ebook and hardback.
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.