Women's History Month in Graphic NovelsLike this list

11 items

• Grass

  Gendry-Kim, Keum Suk,

  Add Grass to your for later shelf

  "Grass is a powerful anti-war graphic novel, offering up firsthand the life story of a Korean girl named Okseon Lee who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the second World War - a disputed chapter in 20th century…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wake

  the Hidden History of Women-led Slave Revolts

  Hall, Rebecca, 1963-

  Add Wake to your for later shelf

  "An historical and imaginative tour-de-force, WAKE brings to light for the first time the existence of enslaved black women warriors, whose stories can be traced by carefully scrutinizing historical records."

• Artemisia

  Ferlut, Nathalie, 1968-

  Add Artemisia to your for later shelf

  "This full-color graphic novel recounts the remarkable story of Artemisia, whose life story is told through the lens of Artemisia's daughter as she questions her mother about their family history."

• Radium Girls

  Cy, 1990-

  Add Radium Girls to your for later shelf

  "A stunning graphic novel retelling of the shocking and inspiring true story of the Radium Girls, who fought for their lives and for workers' rights after horrific management failures led to extreme cases of radiation poisoning in 1918."

• Red Rosa

  a Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg

  Evans, Kate, 1972-

  Add Red Rosa to your for later shelf

  "A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. But she was much more than just a thinker. She made herself heard in a world inimical to the voices of strong-willed women."

• Fruit of Knowledge

  the Vulva Vs. the Patriarchy

  Strömquist, Liv, 1978-

  Add Fruit of Knowledge to your for later shelf

  "Activist Liv Strömquist riffs on outrageous obsessions with menstruation and genitalia."

• We Served the People

  My Mother's Stories

  Burell, Emei,

  Add We Served the People to your for later shelf

  "A collection of moving stories passed from mother to daughter recounting life during China's Cultural Revolution."

• Calamity Jane

  the Calamitous Life of Martha Jane Cannary, 1852-1903

  Perrissin, Christian, 1964-

  Add Calamity Jane to your for later shelf

  "Return to the real-life days of the wild, wild West where the living wasn't so easy...especially for women. Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Cannary) was a bona fide frontierswoman, a professional scout, a drunk, and sometime whore, doing whatever it…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Grandmothers, Our Grandmothers

  Remembering the "comfort Women" of World War II

  Seong-Won, Han,

  Add Grandmothers, Our Grandmothers to your for later shelf

  "In "Grandmothers, our grandmothers" the "comfort women" of the Japanese Imperial Army share their personal stories with us and give us their testimony."

• The Flapper Queens

  Women Cartoonists of the Jazz Age

  Robbins, Trina,

  Add The Flapper Queens to your for later shelf

  "The world of comic strips always reflected the fashion of the time-- from R.F. Outcault's nightie-clad 'Yellow Kid' to Grace Drayton's 'Campbell Kids'. By the 1920s all the little roly-poly girls depicted in those early strips had grown up, bobbed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Smash the Patriarchy

  Breen, Marta, 1976-

  Add Smash the Patriarchy to your for later shelf

  "Patriarchy means "the rule of the father" and describes a system where men are in control. At least since the time of Aristotle, loud-mouthed men have called women weak and inferior. In entertaining comic book form, Smash the Patriarchy shames the…Read moreRead more of this annotation