| Description |
viii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
General Introduction / Jonas Liliequist and Anna Foka -- PART I: LAUGHTER, HUMOR, AND MISOGYNY RECONSIDERATIONS AND NEW PERSPECTIVES. Introduction / Anna Foka -- Laughing at Ourselves: Gendered Humor in Classical Greece / David Konstan -- Is the Comic World a Paradise for Women? Medieval Models of Portable Utopia / Martha Bayless -- Taking Women's Work Seriously: Medieval Humor and the Gendering of Labor / Lisa Perfetti -- Gender Subversion and the Early Christian East: Reconstructing the Byzantine Comic Mime / Anna Foka -- Gossips' Mirth: Gender, Humor and Female Spectators in Ben Jonson's The Staple of News (1626) / Kristine Steenbergh -- The Magic of a Joke: Humor and Gender in Islamicate Ottoman Aesthetics / Didem Havlioglu -- PART II: LAUGHTER, HUMOR, AND THE RHETORIC OF MANHOOD. Introduction / Jonas Liliequist -- Laughter, Sex and Violence: Constructing Gender in Early Modern English Jestbooks / Anu Korhonen -- Horny priests and their Parishioners / Olle Ferm -- Humor, women and male anxieties in ancient Greek visual culture / Alexandre G. Mitchell -- Hegemony and Humor: Class and Hegemonic Masculinities in Three Pre-modern Chinese Humorous Texts / Mario Liong -- Gender, Humor, and Power in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature / Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir -- Laughing at the Unmanly Man in Early Modern Sweden / Jonas Liliequist |
| Summary |
"The present volume shows how humor and laughter are not only fundamental to the construction and reproduction of gender norms and identities, but also provide powerful rhetorical tools for subversion and change. Scholars from a variety of disciplines have been invited to reflect on this claim before the nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Wit and humor -- History and criticism.
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Sex role -- History.
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Comic, The.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Author |
Foka, Anna, 1981- editor
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Liliequist, Jonas, editor
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| LC no. |
2014044339 |
| ISBN |
9781137473301 (hardback) |
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1137473304 (hardback) |
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