Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: The Women's Liberation Movement in comic strips -- Crocodilites and Cathy: the worst of both worlds -- Visualizing motherhood in the comic frame: For better or for worse -- Punk rock girl: constituting community in Barry's Girls and boys -- Nicole Hollander's Sylvia: Menippean satire in the mainstream -- "The lesbian rule" in Alison Bechdel's Dykes to watch out for -- Establishing community through dis/association in Barbara Brandon-Croft's Where I'm coming from -- Something from nothing: the inductive argument of Stone soup…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART 1 The Milner method -- A Life of One's Own and the birth of a diary keeping method to rival psychoanalysis -- On Not Being Able to Paint and drawing and painting for psychoanalysis -- Bothered by Alligators and compensating for the failures of a "couch analysis" -- PART 2 The Milner tradition -- Tracing Milner's influence in the twentieth century -- Milner in the comic frame: Lynda Barry and Alison Bechdel's autobiographical cures -- Conclusion: in search of legibility? …”

“…Arresting Development presents case studies of four key works--Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, Charles Burns's Black Hole, and Gilbert Hernandez's Love and Rockets--exploring how their authors engage the problem of comics' cultural standing. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Newspaper Cartoonist: Alison Bechdel's Queer Grassroots Networks -- Chapter 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Quilted quotations and the pleasure of the text -- Reflective reading : beyond reader-response to the unconscious of reading -- Out-classed : the family romance as fantasy of upward mobility -- To write a different story : reflective reading as a pedagogical practice of restorative justice for racial oppression -- Modernist biography and Méconnaissance : the Bloomsbury group's Oedipal resolution -- The quilting point : Vita Sackville-West's secular Joan of Arc -- Reflective reading, faith, and transformation in Susan Howatch's Church of England novels -- Walking contradiction : Johnny Cash and the instability of the subject -- Depicting the undepictable : the reflective analysis of Alison Bechdel's Are you my mother? -- A twisted wrench & a sunbonnet quilt…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 2.2 Unequal Distributions of Power, Rights, and Resources -- 2.3 A Brief History of Intersectional LGBTIQ Politics in the U.S. -- 3 ALISON BECHDEL'S DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR: A WHITE FANTASY OF A POST-RACIAL LESBIAN COMMUNITY -- 3.1 A "Chronicle of Lesbian Culture and History" -- 3.2 A Multicultural Universe with Whiteness at Its Center -- 3.3 Armchair Anti-Racism: A Post-Racial Lesbian Community in a Racist Society -- 3.4 White Lesbians as a Better Kind of White -- 3.5 Political Consequences of Dykes' Armchair Anti-Racism -- 3.6 Conclusion: When Fantasy Is Read as Fact -- 4 HOWARD CRUSE'S STUCK RUBBER BABY: HOW 'GAY IS THE NEW BLACK' DISCOURSES SHAPE THE WHITE GAY IMAGINARY -- 4.1 A Groundbreaking Work -- 4.2 A Window Seat to History? …”

“…This book thus offers fragmentary commentary on disparate (Sapphic) works, such as the comics of Alison Bechdel, the paintings and cartoons of Leonardo da Vinci, Robert Reid-Pharr’s “Living as a Lesbian,” Madeleine de Scudéry’s Histoire de Sapho, John Donne’s “Sapho to Philaenis,” Todd Haynes and Patricia Highsmith’s Carol, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, writings by Willa Cather, and the paintings and writings of Simeon Solomon, among other works. …”