Winner 2022 Charles Hatfield Award from the Comics Studies Society In the years following 1975 a group of femalecreated comic strips came to national attention in a traditionally maledominated medium.ampampnbspTypical Girls The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Stripsampampnbspuncovers the understudied and developing history of these strips defining and exploring the ramifications of this expression of womens roles at a time of great change in history and in comic art. This impressive engaging and timely study illustrates how these comics express the complexities of womens experiences especially as such experiences were shaped by shifting and often competing notions of womanhood and feminism. Including the comics of Lynn Johnston For Better or For Worse Cathy Guisewite Cathy Nicole Hollander Sylvia Lynda Barry Ernie Pooks Comeek Barbara BrandonCroft Where Im Coming From Alison Bechdel Dykes to Watch Out For and Jan Eliot Stone SoupampampnbspTypical Girlsampampnbspis an important history of the representation of womanhood and womens rights in popular comic strips.