| Description |
238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Humor in life and letters series |
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Humor in life and letters.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Humoring the sentence : women's dialogic comedy / Judy Little -- Social cognition, gender roles, and women's humor / Alice Sheppard -- Toward solidarity : women's humor and group identity / Nancy Walker -- Nineteenth-century women's humor / Nancy Walker -- Domestic comic writers / Zita Z. Dresner -- Hokinson and Hollander : female cartoonists and American culture / Patricia Williams Alley -- Slapsticks, screwballs, and bawds : the long road to the performing talents of Lucy and Bette / June Sochen -- Moms Mabley and the Afro- American comic performance / Elsie A. Williams -- Whoopi Goldberg and Lily Tomlin : Black and White women's humor / Zita Z. Dresner -- There's a joker in the menstrual hut : a performance analysis of comedian Kate Clinton / Linda Pershing. |
| Subject |
American wit and humor -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature.
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Women comedians.
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| Added Author |
Sochen, June, 1937-
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| ISBN |
0814323073 (alk. paper) |
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0814323081 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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