| Description |
xii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Studies in gender and culture, 0889-3128 ; v. 5 |
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Studies in gender and culture,
0889-3128 ; v. 5.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Making trouble : an introduction / Regina Barreca -- What to do with Helen Keller jokes : a feminist act / Mary Klages -- Just kidding : gender and conversational humor / Mary Crawford -- Roseanne Barr : canned laughter, containing the subject / Siân Mile -- Belly laughs and naked rage : resisting humor in Karen Finley's performance art / Maria Pramaggiore -- Sylvia talks back / Kayann Short -- Why women cartoonists are rare, and why that's important / Betty Swords -- Return the favor / Laura Kightlinger -- Parallel lives of Kathy and Mo / Brenda Gross -- Politics of humor : an interview with Margaret Drabble / Ian Wojcik-Andrews -- Wendy Cope's struggle with Strugnell in Making cocoa for Kinsley Amis / Nicola Thompson -- Duel of wits and the lesbian romance novel, or, Verbal intercourse in fictional regency England / Catrióna Rueda Esquibel -- Louise Erdrich as Nanapush / Sharon Manybeads Bowers -- Confirming the place of "The other" : gender and ethnic identity in Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior / Khani Begum -- Feminist humorist of the 1920s : the "little insurrections" of Florence Guy Seabury / Thomas Grant -- Irony and ambiguity in Grace King's "Monsieur Motte" / Zita Z. Dresner -- Violence and comedy in the works of Flannery O'Connor / Mark Walters -- Laughter as feminine power in The color purple and A question of silence / Judy Elsley -- Goblin ha-ha : hidden smiles and open laughter in Jane Eyre / Robin Jones -- Art of courting women's laughter / Bette Talvacchia -- Ancestral laughter of the streets : humor in Muriel Spark's earlier works / Regina Barreca. |
| Subject |
American wit and humor -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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English wit and humor -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- United States.
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Women and literature -- Great Britain.
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Women comedians -- United States.
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Comic, The.
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Comedy.
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| Added Author |
Barreca, Regina.
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| ISBN |
2881245331 hardcover |
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288124534X softcover |
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