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The Political is Personal: Dual Domesticity in Dykes to Watch Out For
- Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society
- The Ohio State University Press
- Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 2017
- pp. 40-55
- 10.1353/ink.2017.0003
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ABSTRACT:
This essay examines the ways in which Alison Bechdel’s comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For creatively expresses national, domestic politics within the smaller, domestic spaces of homes and communities, focusing narrowly on several exemplary strips that powerfully illustrate Bechdel’s exquisite rendering of the political within the personal sphere.