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1 online resource (361 pages) |
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Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies |
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Routledge research in cultural and media studies.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Humor: A Many Gendered Thing / Raffaella Baccolini -- PART I -- 2. Blended Spaces as Subversive Feminist Humor / Joanne Scheibman -- 3. Traditional Comic Conflicts in Farce and Roles for Women / Jessica Milner Davis -- 4. School for Scandal: Humor and the Scandalized Narrative in Women's Speculative Fiction / Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor -- 5. "A Gay Arcadia of Happy Girls": Women, the Body, and the Welfare State in British Film Comedy / Frances Gray -- 6. Humorless Lesbians / Don Kulick -- 7. Gender Trouble in Sketches from Japan / Francois Bouchetoux -- PART II -- 8. Humor and Gender: An Overview of Psychological Research / Rod A. Martin -- 9. Gender and Humor in Everyday Conversation / Jennifer Coates -- 10. Funny", Feminine, and Flirtatious: Humor and Gendered Discourse Norms at Work / Stephanie Schnurr -- 11. Power and Connection: Humor in a Cantonese Family / John S.Y. Hui -- PART III -- 12. Humor and Contemporary Product Design: International Perspectives / Sheri R. Klein -- 13. Being Bowered and Taking Liberties: Female Performance and Female Identities in The Catherine Tate Show / Sharon Lockyer -- 14. Little Miss Sunshine and the Avoidance of Tragedy / Gail Finney -- 15. "What'ya Mean I'm Funny?" Ball-Busting Humor and Italian American Masculinities / Fred Gardaphe -- 16. "A Woman, a Wog and a Westie": Monica Pellizzari's Critical Humor from Down Under / Alessandra Senzani -- 17. Gender and Grotesque Humor in Contemporary Italian Literature: Language, Culture, and Translation / Brigid Maher -- 18. Queer Humor: Gay Comedy between Camp and Diversity / Rainer Emig -- 19. Petite Flower, Giver Goddess, and Duchess of Discipline: Sexual Nonconformity, Play, and Camp Humor in the Performance of Judy Tenuta / Giovanna P. Del Negro -- 20. Humor and Gender, Directions for Future Research: Where Do We Go from Here? / Delia Chiaro |
| Summary |
In the mid-seventies, both gender studies and humor studies emerged as new disciplines, with scholars from various fields undertaking research in these areas. The first publications that emerged in the field of gender studies came out of disciplines such as philosophy, history, and literature, while early works in the area of humor studies initially concentrated on language, linguistics, and psychology. Since then, both fields have flourished, but largely independently. This book draws together and focuses the work of scholars from diverse disciplines on intersections of gender and humor, givi |
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Print version record |
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Gender identity.
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Gender identity in mass media.
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Wit and humor
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sex role.
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humor.
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Gender identity
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Gender identity in mass media
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Wit and humor
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Baccolini, Raffaella
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| ISBN |
9781317804154 |
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1317804155 |
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