Women and comedy : history, theory, practice / edited by Peter Dickinson, Anne Higgins, Paul Matthew St. Pierre, Diana Solomon and Sean Zwagerman.

Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice brings together leading researchers from Canada, the United States, and Europe in an interdisciplinary collection of essays to chart the future of critical inquiry in gender and comedy studies.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Dickinson, Peter, 1968- (Editor), Higgins, Anne, 1952-, St. Pierre, Paul Matthew (Editor), Solomon, Diana, 1970- (Editor), Zwagerman, Sean (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Madison : Lanham, Maryland : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2014]
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505 0 |a Preface / Regina Barreca -- Introduction: Dorothy Parker's Headache / Peter Dickinson, Anne Higgins, Paul Matthew St. Pierre, Diana Solomon, Sean Zwagerman -- Laughing Aphrodite / Laurie O'Higgins -- Comedy in Ancient Greece and Rome: What Was Funny, Whose Humor Was It, and How Do We Explain the Jokes Without Killing Them? / Barbara Gold -- Mary and Her Sisters / Anne Higgins -- Feminist Humor Without Women: The Challenge of Reading (in) the Middle Ages / Lisa Perfetti -- Laugh, or Forever Hold Your Peace: Comic Crowd Control in Margaret Cavendish's Dramatic Prologues and Epilogues / Diana Solomon -- Domestic Manners of the Americans: A Transatlantic Phenomenon / Linda A. Morris -- The Business of British Burlesque / Jacky Bratton -- The Comic Bodies and Obscene Voices of Burlesque / Joanna Mansbridge -- Elsie and Doris Waters: Four Songs / Paul Matthew St. Pierre -- "I'm Daphne": On the Comedy of Cross-Dressing and Metamorphosis in Wilder's Some Like It Hot, Lubitsch's I Don't Want to Be a Man, and Ovid's / Metamorphoses / Kay Young -- Biting the Hand That Feeds Her: Patronage and Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Theater / Gilli Bush-Bailey -- Out of the Box: Comedy in Disability Theater by Canadian Women / Kirsty Johnston -- Humoring the Female Pol: Irony, Consciousness-Raising, and "Third-Culture" Discourse / Tarez Samra Graban -- A Cautionary Tale: Ann Coulter and the Failure of Humor / Sean Zwagerman -- Lesbian Stand-Up Comics and the Politics of Laughter / Joanne Gilbert -- Layla Siddiqui as Holy Fool in Little Mosque on the Prairie / Shannon Hengen -- Postmodernity and the Gendered Uses of Political Satire / Lisa Colletta -- Coda: Try This at Home / Peter Dickinson. 
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