New Perspectives on Women and Comedy (Studies in Gender and Culture)
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Review
"'...reveals the dynamic changes and undercurrents reshaping the women's humor. Its wide-ranging essays will appeal to scholars and general readers alike.'."
-Nancy Walker of Vanderbilt University
"'Recuperating women's laughter is a key strategy in increasing women's power, and no more presents the full range and power of that humor more impressively than Regina Barreca.'."
-John Galvin of Georgetown University
Book Description
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.
New Perspectives on Women and Comedy (Studies in Gender and Culture),REGINA BARRECA,Routledge,2881245331,American wit and humor,English wit and humor,English-speaking countries,History and criticism,Satire And Humor,Sociology,Women In Literature,Women and literature,Women authors
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