She also addresses the central role of the body for the representation and cultural construction of Jewish women. In doing so, the cartoonist points out how the ‘Jewish nose’ is stereotypically perceived and believed to be a defining (bodily) feature as well as a marker of Jewish identity.
In her comic Nose Job (1989), Kominsky-Crumb describes how she grew up on Long Island in the early 1960s ‘with cosmetic surgery all around’ her and asks herself how it comes that ‘boys get to keep their noses’ while imagining how she may have looked if only she had a nose job like most of her female teenage peers. Paying particular attention to the aspect of gender, this essay explores the relationship between media, bodies and discursive constructions of Jewishness in the autobiographical comics of Jewish-American underground cartoonist Aline Kominsky-Crumb.
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