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[oursin]

This sounds like excellent nostalgic fun: Great British Comics by Paul Gravett & Peter Stanbury, reviewed by Michel Faber:
A scholarly history is traced in eight substantial chapters, each exploring the evolution of the medium through a different lens: class relations in "For Richer, For Poorer", femininity in "Jolly Hockey Sticks To Sheroes", and

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[ozarque]

"Which not only has a male professor of women's studies (okay, maybe there are a few..."

I've seen one with my own eyes. I once gave a paper at a feminist conference and a male professor of women's studies in the audience stood up afterward and objected to it at the top of his lungs for almost as long as it had taken me to present it in the first place -- and then said that he was sure that everyone present would agree that he was better qualified to teach feminism courses than I was.

oops....

[ozarque]

Correction.... Now that I think back (way back), it's not accurate to say that I gave that paper at a feminist conference. Accurately: "I once gave a feminist paper at a literary conference and..."

Re: oops....

[oursin]

This sounds like that 'anything you can do I can do better' syndrome, which is probably not unique to male academics, or males, or academics, but is not altogether uncommon among them.

[ankaret]

I can't actually think which would be more likely to cause abrupt cessation of lustful thoughts: carbolic acid, or the mental association of sex with Ms McKeith.

[serrana]

*GRIN* You can be glad you missed my husband's lecture to my father on Kellogg and why we wouldn't be circumcizing the boy. Oh, my.

And I did actually go to school with a fellow who was minoring in Women's Studies. But it was more that he was interested in gender.

[oursin]

I've met the occasional postgrad, male, doing women's/gender studies, but at least in the UK, not sure that there are any male professors.