Tag Archives: Emily Steinberg

Drawing Infertility: An Interview with Paula Knight, Jenell Johnson, Emily Steinberg, and Phoebe Potts

Venkatesan, S., & Murali, C. (2020) Drawing infertility: an interview with Paula Knight, Jenell Johnson, Emily Steinberg, and Phoebe Potts, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2020.1764074 ABSTRACT: Although infertility is a gender-neutral health quandary, women are often blamed and stigmatised for the couple’s failure to reproduce. The valorisation of the maternal within the discursive constructions of womanhood engenders… Read More »

Graphic Medicine and the Critique of Contemporary U.S. Healthcare

Venkatesan, S. & Murali, C. J Med Humanit (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-019-09571-z https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10912-019-09571-z ABSTRACT: Comics has always had a critical engagement with socio-political and cultural issues and hence evolved into a medium with a subversive power to challenge the status quo. Staying true to the criticality of the medium, graphic medicine (where comics intersects with the discourse… Read More »

Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine

Venkatesan, S., & Murali, C. (2018). Infertility comics and graphic medicine, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 61(4), p. 609-621. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/713167/summary ABSTRACT: Cultures around the world are replete with images of women as the epitome of love, kindness, patience, and similar virtues, owing to their ability to give birth. Consequently, those who cannot give birth due… Read More »