Autorentext

Ulli Lust, born in Vienna in 1967, is an award-winning comic artist and illustrator. Her graphic memoir Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life received international attention and won the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Ignatz Award. Her subsequent works include How I Tried to Be a Good Person and Voices in the Dark. She teaches drawing and comics at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

Klappentext

In the canon of prehistory, men are the constant focal point, depicted hunting, striking flint, or painting caves. Yet nearly all of the images that depict humans, left to us by prehistoric humans themselves, are depictions of women. What kind of societies were these that portrayed women so centrally, and what can they tell us about the ways in which our perception of gender has evolved-or devolved?

Building on years of research, Ulli Lust crafts a vastly scaled graphic history about the beginnings of art, the evolution of womanhood, and the importance of empathy for the survival of our species. Going back to the beginning of humanity, Lust draws on scientific findings in archaeology, anthropology, art history, and her own lived experience to illustrate how the role of women in human history has remained largely underrepresented.

In her signature style of intricate illustrations and comprehensive storyboards, Ulli Lust breaks down long-entrenched beliefs and unearths a fresh approach to the intersection of culture and gender, depicting a time in which the hero's journey was a group effort that could only be completed together-by women, men, children, and even nonbinary people, in roles that run the gamut of human experience.

Inhalt

1. The Shame
2. Social Behavior in Great Apes
3. Daughters and Sons of the First Humans
4. Today Everything is Different
5. A Snake in Paradise
6. The Human Color
7. Cold Grassland
8. The First Sculptors
9. Human Bones
10. Mammoths
11. Hunters
12. Tide