New Perspectives on Women and Comedy
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American wit
Brave Orchid
Breast Man
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Chinese American
Chinese American Male
Chopin
comic
Cope's Humor
Cope’s Humor
disability and comedy
English wit
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ethnic identity narratives
Feminist Humor
feminist literary criticism
Follow
gender and humour studies
gender studies
gendered humour in literary works
Grace King
Great Britain
history and criticism
Hold
humor
humour
Kate Chopin
lesbian representation literature
Ma Si
Muriel Spark
performance art analysis
Persona
Regency Romance
Robert Bush
Smooth
Underwear
United States
Violated
Water Man
Wo
women and literature
women authors
Women Cartoonists
women comedians
Women's Comedy
Women's Humor
Women’s Comedy
Women’s Humor
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781032226729
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 Apr 2022
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First published in 1992, the twenty-one original essays in this volume explore the way women have used humor to break down cultural stereotypes between the genders. Examples from literature and the performing arts deal with humor and violence, humor and disability, humor and the supposition of women’s shame, lesbian and ethnic humor, and particularly women’s responses to men’s humor. The essayists present traditional issues from new perspectives and take us from Italy in the Renaissance to today’s New York comedy clubs. They may make you laugh; they may make you nervous. They will certainly make you reevaluate the importance of placing women at the center of a discussion of comedy.
Regina Barreca, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English Literature at The University of Connecticut.
