Graphic Embodiments
Perspectives on Health and Embodiment in Graphic Narratives

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Jodi Cressman and Lisa DeTora -- Part 1. Making Sense of Embodiment -- The Embodied Witness of Graphic Pathology -- Jodi Cressman -- Embodying the Mind: Social Metacognition in Graphic Medical Narratives -- Carl Fisher -- Embodiments of Virtue: Depiction of Caste in Popular Indian Comics and Graphic Novels -- Shreya Sangai -- Graphic Experiences of Immigration, Migration, and Diaspora: Shaun Tan's The Arrival and Matt Huynh's Interactive Graphic Adaptation of Nam Le's "The Boat" -- Alison Halsall -- Body Talk: A Cross-Disciplinary Course on Embodiment and Graphic Memoir -- Michael J. Klein -- Part 2. Empirical Problematics -- Women's Gazes and Non-Newtonian Embodiment in Scientific Graphic Biography -- Lisa DeTora -- Sexology and/as Pornography: Considering the Sexologist's Desiring Gaze through Forberg and Avril's De Figuris Veneris -- Katelyn Dykstra -- Spatializing Women's Bodies in Italian Comics: A Gender-Sociological Perspective -- Barbara Grüning -- Mother Nature, "She's a Bitch": Maternity and Ecofeminism in This One Summer -- Lauren Rizzuto -- Part 3. Embodied Conditions -- "A Thin Line Between the Inside and the Outside": HIV and Graphic Life Writing -- Jordana Greenblatt -- The Price of an Ending: Reading Graphic Embodiment in Cancer Vixen -- Antonio J. Ferraro -- Voiceless Bodies: Drawing Autism and Depression in Bef's Maria Speaks -- Radmila Lale Stefkova -- Full Bleed: The Graphic Period at the End of the Menstrual Narrative -- Jeannie Ludlow -- Afterword -- Frederick Luis Aldama -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index.