Abstract
In the 1970s and ‘80s, a number of feminist underground comics, including Wimmen’s Comix, Dynamite Damsels and more, were created concurrently with the American second-wave feminist movement. This thesis closely examines the reactions of feminist readers of the time period to the comics, arguing that feminists accepted them as part of the feminist discourse and that the comics are important to the history of feminist media. The primary sources utilized include contemporary reviews and articles about the comics from feminist media, correspondence to and from the authors of the comics, and published and unpublished interviews with the comics’ authors. As these comics have barely been studied to date by historians, this thesis breaks new ground by examining the ways in which comics were seen to fit into the feminist culture, and crucially contextualizes their creation in history.
How to Cite
Thacker, S., (2020) ““Something to Offend Everyone”: Situating Feminist Comics of the 1970s and ‘80s in the Second-Wave Feminist Movement”, Capstone, The UNC Asheville Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship 33(1).
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