@article{Gungor_2020, title={Women’s Sex Representation in Comic Book}, volume={3}, url={http://tiikmpublishing.com/proceedings/index.php/fow/article/view/614}, DOI={10.17501/26028646.2020.3103}, abstractNote={<p>The representation of women has always been different in comics from past to present.<br>Some women have been shown in the comics, in the role of being saved by a male superhero, or in a<br>sexy female image with pornographic elements. The scarcity of female illustrators and writers, being<br>male among publishers consists of the necessary information for the research of comics among the<br>gender studies. Just as there are gender and objectification elements in real life, there are also these<br>approaches to the female body in comics. Towards the 21st century, together with the movements of<br>feminism, both the technological conditions and the digitization of the comics have made women’s<br>representation a little more free. For this reason, the methodology of the research has been<br>determined as Fourth Wave Feminism. Now, they can explain the female lesbian culture and sexual<br>policies independently of society in the comics of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and a series of images<br>that depict Belden Sezen’s A Snapshot. The handling of such female characters in comic books and<br>graphic novels firstly enables the students to make accurate determinations while breaking the<br>prejudice of the society, and then when determining the orientation of the young generation, and that<br>women can live their identity freely as an individual. Based on all these information and results, in<br>this research, the representation of women in comics will be explained through a historical<br>evaluation and then criticized in terms of gender.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Proceedings of the International Conference on Future of Women}, author={Gungor, Aylin}, year={2020}, month={Jul.}, pages={25–35} }