Jewish Women in Comics Bodies and Borders
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Biographical note
Heike Bauer is professor of modern literature and cultural history at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has published widely on sexuality and gender including The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture and a special issue on "The Visual Archives of Sex."
Andrea Greenbaum is professor of English at Barry University in Florida. She is the author of several books including The Tropes of War: Visual Hyperbole and Spectacular Culture and Jews of South Florida.
Sarah Lightman is an artist, writer, and curator. She is a faculty member at the Royal Drawing School in London. She is the author of The Book of Sarah and editor of the Eisner Award-winning volume Graphic Details: Jewish Women's Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews.
The volume includes major figures such as Miriam Katin, Emil Ferris, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, and Rutu Modan alongside works by artists translated for the first time into English, such as the Georgian Nino Biniashvili and the Haredi artist Batsheva Havlin. Exploring topics such as family, motherhood, miscarriages, queerness, gender and Judaism, illness, war, and the lingering impact of the Holocaust, the contributors present unique, at times deeply personal, insights into how Jewishness intersects with other forms of identity and identification. In doing so, the volume deepens our understanding of Jewish women’s experiences.
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Biographical note
Heike Bauer is professor of modern literature and cultural history at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has published widely on sexuality and gender including The Hirschfeld Archives: Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture and a special issue on "The Visual Archives of Sex."
Andrea Greenbaum is professor of English at Barry University in Florida. She is the author of several books including The Tropes of War: Visual Hyperbole and Spectacular Culture and Jews of South Florida.
Sarah Lightman is an artist, writer, and curator. She is a faculty member at the Royal Drawing School in London. She is the author of The Book of Sarah and editor of the Eisner Award-winning volume Graphic Details: Jewish Women's Confessional Comics in Essays and Interviews.