Laughter, humor, and the (un)making of gender : historical and cultural perspectives /: historical and cultural perspectives. (2015)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Laughter, humor, and the (un)making of gender : historical and cultural perspectives /: historical and cultural perspectives. (2015)
- Main Title:
- Laughter, humor, and the (un)making of gender : historical and cultural perspectives
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Anna Foka and Jonas Liliequist.
- Editors:
- Foka, Anna, 1981-
Liliequist, Jonas - Contents:
- General Introduction; Jonas Liliequist and Anna Foka PART I: LAUGHTER, HUMOR, AND MISOGYNY RECONSIDERATIONS AND NEW PERSPECTIVES Introduction; Anna Foka 1. Laughing at Ourselves: Gendered Humor in Classical Greece; David Konstan 2. Is the Comic World a Paradise for Women? Medieval Models of Portable Utopia; Martha Bayless 3. Taking Women's Work Seriously: Medieval Humor and the Gendering of Labor; Lisa Perfetti 4. Gender Subversion and the Early Christian East: Reconstructing the Byzantine Comic Mime; Anna Foka 5. Gossips' Mirth: Gender, Humor and Female Spectators in Ben Jonson's The Staple of News (1626); Kristine Steenbergh 6. The Magic of a Joke: Humor and Gender in Islamicate Ottoman Aesthetics; Didem Havlio?lu PART II: LAUGHTER, HUMOR, AND THE RHETORIC OF MANHOOD Introduction; Jonas Liliequist 7. Laughter, Sex and Violence: Constructing Gender in Early Modern English Jestbooks; Anu Korhonen 8. Horny priests and their Parishioners; Olle Ferm 9. Humor, women and male anxieties in ancient Greek visual culture; Alexandre G. Mitchell 10. Discipline and Humor: Hegemonic Masculinities in Three Pre-modern Chinese Humorous Texts; Mario Liong 11. Gender, Humor, and Power in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature; Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir 12. Laughing at the Unmanly Man in Early Modern SwedenL Jonas Liliequist.
- Edition:
- 2015
- Publisher Details:
- Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 809.7
Wit and humor -- History and criticism
Sex role -- History
Comic, The - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781137463654
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781137473301
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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