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Menopause: A Comic Treatment

Menopause: A Comic Treatment - Hardcover

by Mk Czerwiec
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Availability:In StockContributor:Mk CzerwiecPublish date:2022-01-04Pages:144
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Graphic Mundi - Psu PressISBN-13:9781637790106ISBN-10:1637790104UPC:9781637790106Book Category:Comics & Graphic Novels, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Contemporary Women, Anthologies, Women's StudiesSize:10.60 x 8.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.8519Product ID:SC80CT0EM2
Eisner Award Winner for Best Anthology and Best ShortStory

New York Times best graphic novel of2020

Booklist best graphic novel for adultsof 2020

Hot flashes. Vaginal atrophy. Socialstigma. The comics in this unapologetic anthology prove that when it comes tomenopause and its attendant symptoms, no one needs to sweat italone.

Featuring works by comics luminariessuch as Lynda Barry, Joyce Farmer, Ellen Forney, and Carol Tyler, Menopause isthe perfect antidote to the simplistic, cheap-joke approach that treatsmenopause as a cultural taboo. This anthology challenges stereotypes withperspectives from a range of life experiences, ages, gender identities, ethnicities, and health conditions.
Othercontributors include Maureen Burdock, Jennifer Camper, KC Councilor, MKCzerwiec, Leslie Ewing, Ann M. Fox, Keet Geniza, Roberta Gregory, Teva Harrison, Rachael House, Leah Jones, Monica Lalanda, Cathy Leamy, Ajuan Mance, JessicaMoran, Mimi Pond, Sharon Rosenzweig, Joyce Schachter, Susan Merrill Squier, Emily Steinberg, Nicola Streeten, A. K. Summers, Kimiko Tobimatsu, Shelley L.Wall, and Dana Walrath.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Graphic Mundi - Psu PressISBN-13:9781637790106ISBN-10:1637790104UPC:9781637790106Book Category:Comics & Graphic Novels, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Contemporary Women, Anthologies, Women's StudiesSize:10.60 x 8.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.8519Product ID:SC80CT0EM2

MK Czerwiec is a nurse, cartoonist, educator, and co-founder of the field of Graphic Medicine. She is the creator of Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 and a co-author of Graphic Medicine Manifesto. MK is also the comics editor for the journal Literature & Medicine. MK regularly teaches graphic medicine at Northwestern University's Feinberg Medical School and the University of Chicago. She has served as a Senior Fellow of the George Washington School of Nursing Center for Health Policy and Media Engagement as well as a Will Eisner Fellow in Applied Cartooning at the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont. You can see more of her work at her website, www.comicnurse.com.


Publisher: Graphic Mundi - Psu Press

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