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050 00 $aBH301.C7$bW66 2013
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245 00 $aWomen and comedy :$bhistory, theory, practice /$cedited by Peter Dickinson, Anne Higgins, Paul Matthew St. Pierre, Diana Solomon and Sean Zwagerman.
264 1 $aMadison ;$bFairleigh Dickinson University Press ;$aLanham, Maryland :$bCo-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.,$c[2013]
264 4 $c©2013
300 $axxxvii, 250 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 227-239) and index.
505 0 $aPreface / 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.
650 0 $aComic, The.
650 0 $aWomen comedians.
650 0 $aComedy.
700 1 $aZwagerman, Sean,$eeditor.
700 1 $aSolomon, Diana,$d1970-$eeditor.
700 1 $aSt. Pierre, Paul Matthew,$eeditor.
700 1 $aDickinson, Peter,$d1968-$eeditor.
700 1 $aHiggins, Anne,$d1952-
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