Bodies beyond boundaries: gender and Judaism in contemporary British Jewish women's confessional graphic art

This chapter presents two contemporary Jewish women graphic artists in Britain who engage with issues of gender and Judaism in their life stories through confessional storytelling. Sarah Lightman and Corinne Pearlman are innovative in Jewish women’s confessional writing. Lightman has promoted the genre of Jewish women’s graphic novels at conferences and curated exhibitions around the world, while Pearlman is creative director at Myriad Editions, publishers of literary fiction, nonfiction, and graphic novels. Their work should be seen in the context of identity politics in the British Jewish community but also in the context of contemporary feminist artists and performers whose...