Kristy Beers Fägersten et al.
Kristy Beers Fägersten: Professor of English Linguistics Head of English Department at Södertörn University. She is a member of the networks SwiSca (Swearing in Scandinavia) and NNCORE (Nordic Network for Comics Research).
Anna Nordenstam: Professor History of Ideas, and Religion, Department of Literature, Gothenburg University. Current Project “Feminist Swedish Comics
as Medium for Political Activism and Critique” (project leader), financed by the Swedish Research Council 2019–2022.
Leena Romu: PhD-candidate in Translation and Literary Studies, School of Language, Tampere University.
Margareta Wallin Wictorin: PhD in Art History and Visual Studies, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies , Karlstad University. Current research interest: popular prints and imagery, press images, book illustrations, comics and graphic novels, and contemporary art, often with educational, feminist and postcolonial perspectives.
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Articles by Kristy Beers Fägersten et al.
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Feminist comic art in Sweden, Finland, and the Baltic Sea region raises the question of whether it is possible to find a common denominator for feminist comic art. Are feminist comics connected by certain aesthetic qualities or themes? Is there a shared conception of feminism that is recognizable in the comics produced in the Baltic Sea region? The answer to both questions is ”no”. As much as there is an exchange of ideas and aesthetic influences between artists in different countries, there are local varieties specific to countries and individual artists. Furthermore, variations in contemporary conceptions of feminism seem to depend on varying historical conditions and experiences in the different countries.
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