{"product_id":"women-and-comedy-history-theory-practice-9781683930723","title":"Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWomen and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice presents the most current international scholarship on the complexity and subversive potential of women’s comedic speech, literature, and performance. Earlier comedy theorists such as Freud and Bergson did not envision women as either the agents or audiences of comedy, only as its targets. Only more recently have scholarly studies of comedy begun to recognize and historicize women’s contributions to—and political uses of—comedy. The essays collected here demonstrate the breadth of current scholarship on gender and comedy, spanning centuries of literature and a diversity of methodologies. Through a reconsideration of literary, theatrical, and mass media texts from the Classical period to the present, Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice responds to the historical marginalization and\/or trivialization of both women and comedy. The essays collected in this volume assert the importance of recognizing the role of women and comedy in order to understand these texts, their historical contexts, and their possibilities and limits as models for social engagement. In the spirit of comedy itself, these analyses allow for opportunities to challenge and reevaluate the theoretical approaches themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Acknowledgments\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  List of Illustrations\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t   Preface\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t000\t\t\t \tRegina Barreca   Introduction: Dorothy Parker’s Headache\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  \tPeter Dickinson, Anne Higgins, Paul Matthew St. Pierre, Diana Solomon, Sean  \tZwagerman   Part I: Histories, Politics and Forms\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  Laughing Aphrodite\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  \tLaurie 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?\t\t\t\t\t  \tBarbara Gold  Mary and Her Sisters\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  \tAnne Higgins  Feminist Humor without Women: The Challenge of Reading (in) the Middle Ages\t\t  \tLisa Perfetti  Laugh, or Forever Hold Your Peace: Comic Crowd Control in Margaret Cavendish’s Dramatic Prologues and Epilogues\t\t\t\t  \tDiana Solomon   Domestic Manners of the Americans: A Transatlantic Phenomenon\t\t\t\t  \tLinda Morris  Part II: Approaches, Texts and Audiences\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  The Business of British Burlesque\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  \tJacky Bratton  The Comic Bodies and Obscene Voices of Burlesque\t\t\t\t\t  \tJoanna Mansbridge  Elsie and Doris Waters: Four Songs\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  \tPaul 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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  \tKay Young  Biting the Hand that Feeds Her: Patronage and Comedy  in Nineteenth-Century Theatre\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  \tGilli Bush-Bailey  Out of the Box: Comedy in Disability Theater by Canadian Women\t\t\t  \tKirsty Johnston   Part III: Topics, Theories and Practices\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  Humoring the Female Pol: Irony, Consciousness-Raising,  and “Third-Culture” Discourse\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  \tTarez Samra Graban  An American Treasure: The Wit and Wisdom of Ann Coulter A Cautionary Tale: Ann Coulter and the Failure of Humor\t\t\t\t\t  \tSean Zwagerman   Lesbian Stand-Up Comics and the Politics of Laughter\t\t\t\t\t  \tJoanne Gilbert Layla Siddiqui as Holy Fool in Little Mosque on the Prairie\t\t\t\t\t  \tShannon Hengen  Postmodernity and the Gendered Uses of Political Satire\t\t\t\t\t  \tLisa Colletta   Coda: Try This at Home\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  \tPeter Dickinson   Bibliography\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  Contributors\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  Index","brand":"Fairleigh Dickinson University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042116305239,"sku":"9781683930723","price":39.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781683930723.jpg?v=1750953056","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/women-and-comedy-history-theory-practice-9781683930723","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}