Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine

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Chinmay Murali (National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India) Sathyaraj Venkatesan (National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India)

Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine

Chinmay Murali (National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India), Sathyaraj Venkatesan (National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India)

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Routledge
09 January 2023

The Arts: General & Reference; Humanities; Gender studies, gender groups; Reproductive medicine; Graphical & digital media applications

Series: Routledge Focus on Gender, Sexuality, and Comics

Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine examines women’s graphic memoirs on infertility, foregrounding the complex interrelationship between women’s life writing, infertility studies, and graphic medicine.

Through a scholarly examination of the artists’ use of visual-verbal codes of the comics medium in narrating their physical ordeals and affective challenges occasioned by infertility, the book seeks to foreground the intricacies of gender identity, embodiment, subjectivity, and illness experience. Providing long-overdue scholarly attention on the perspectives of autobiographical and comics studies, the authors examine the gendered nature of the infertility experience and the notion of motherhood as an ideological force which interpolates socio-cultural discourses, accentuating the potential of graphic medicine as a creative space for the infertile women to voice their hitherto silenced perspectives on childlessness with force and urgency.

This interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to scholars and students in comics studies, the health humanities, literature, and women’s and gender studies, and will also be suitable for readers in visual studies and narrative medicine.

By: Chinmay Murali (National Institute of Technology Trichy India), Sathyaraj Venkatesan (National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 163g
ISBN: 9781032077390
ISBN 10: 1032077395
Series: Routledge Focus on Gender, Sexuality, and Comics
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 09 January 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; Chapter 1: Visualising Illness: Comics and Graphic Medicine; Chapter 2: Imagining ""the Barren"": Cultural Representations of Women’s Infertility; Chapter 3: Hegemonic Creations: Pronatalism and the Social Construction of Motherhood; Chapter 4: The Infertile Body in the Clinic: Medicalisation and Loss of Agency; Chapter 5: Traversing Infertility: Endurance and Alternatives; Conclusion

Chinmay Murali was a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India. He is currently an independent researcher. His research interests include literature and medicine, graphic medicine, and critical health humanities. His research articles have appeared in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Journal of Medical Humanities, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, Women’s Studies, among others. He is a recipient of the Visiting Scholar fellowship from the Center for Health Humanities, MCPHS University, Boston, USA. Sathyaraj Venkatesan is Associate Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India. He is the author of six books and over 90 research publications that span African American literature, health humanities, graphic medicine, film studies, and other literary and cultural studies disciplines. He is most recently co-author of Gender, Eating Disorders and Graphic Medicine and India Retold.

Reviews for Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine

Combining an acute analysis of the often conflicting medical and socio-cultural constructions of infertility with illuminating, theoretically informed readings of four trailblazing works of graphic medicine, this book will be a valuable addition to courses in Feminist and Women's Studies, Medical humanities, History of Medicine, and Comics Studies. More than that, this will engage the mind and heart of anyone who has faced the challenging experience of infertility. Susan Squier, Brill Professor Emerita of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and English, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Murali and Venkatesan's close examination of infertility comics, or gynographics, confirms what proponents of graphic medicine have long known: comics are a powerful space for silenced voices to, finally, be heard. Matthew Noe, Harvard Medical School, USA