Laughing Feminism

Laughing Feminism
Author: Audrey Bilger
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1998
Genre: Dissenters in literature
ISBN: 9780814330548

An examination of comedy and feminism in the works of early women British novelists.

Who's Laughing Now?

Who's Laughing Now?
Author: Jenny Sunden
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2020-11-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0262361140

Exploring feminist social media tactics that use humor and laughter as a form of resistance to misogyny, rewiring feelings of shame into shamelessness. Online sexism, hate, and harassment aim to silence women through shaming and fear. In Who's Laughing Now? Jenny Sundén and Susanna Paasonen examine a somewhat counterintuitive form of resistance: humor. Sundén and Paasonen argue that feminist social media tactics that use humor, laughter, and a sense of the absurd to answer name-calling, offensive language, and unsolicited dick pics can reroute and rewire shame into a self-assured shamelessness.

Who’s Laughing Now?

Who’s Laughing Now?
Author: Anna Frey
Publisher: Demeter Press
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2021-02-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1772583189

From dour old women to buzzkills who can't take a joke, the stereotype of the humourless feminist has repeatedly been deployed to derail and delegitimize the women's rights movement. This collection skips the tired debates that ask whether feminists can be funny—we know the answer to this already—to instead investigate contemporary expressions and functions of humour within international feminist movements and communities. This interdisciplinary volume showcases critical analyses of cultural texts and events, personal accounts of producing and encountering feminist humour, and creative interruptions that pair laughter with insight. As a whole, this work seeks to sideline caricatures of the humourless feminist by promoting a vision of a diverse movement vibrant with innovative, generous, threatening, and, ultimately, triumphant laughter.

Feminism and Contemporary Art

Feminism and Contemporary Art
Author: Jo Anna Isaak
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1134895275

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Laughing with Medusa

Laughing with Medusa
Author: Vanda Zajko
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2006-01-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0191556920

Laughing with Medusa explores a series of interlinking questions, including: Does history's self-positioning as the successor of myth result in the exclusion of alternative narratives of the past? How does feminism exclude itself from certain historical discourses? Why has psychoanalysis placed myth at the centre of its explorations of the modern subject? Why are the Muses feminine? Do the categories of myth and politics intersect or are they mutually exclusive? Does feminism's recourse to myth offer a script of resistance or commit it to an ineffective utopianism? Covering a wide range of subject areas including poetry, philosophy, science, history, and psychoanalysis as well as classics, this book engages with these questions from a truly interdisciplinary perspective. It includes a specially commisssioned work of fiction, `Iphigeneia's Wedding', by the poet Elizabeth Cook.

Feminism and the Religious Significance of Laughing Bodies

Feminism and the Religious Significance of Laughing Bodies
Author: Nicole Graham
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2024-06-03
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1040030521

This book identifies the significance of the body through a feminist reconceptualisation of laughter as a means of insight. It positions itself within the emerging scholarship on religion and humour but distinguishes itself by moving away from the emphasis on humour and instead focuses on the place and role of laughter. Through a feminist reading of laughter, which is grounded in the philosophical and psychological works of William James, this book emphasises the importance of the body to offer an exploration of laughter as a means of insight. In doing so, it challenges the classificatory orders of knowledge by recognising and arguing for the value of the body in the creation of knowledge and understanding. To demonstrate the centrality of the body for insight laughter, and thus the creation of knowledge, this book engages with laughter within three thematic areas: religious experience, gendered experiences of laughter, and the ethics of laughter. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in religious studies, theology, gender studies, humour studies, philosophy, and the history of ideas.

Women Laughing Alone with Salad

Women Laughing Alone with Salad
Author: Sheila Callaghan
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2019
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0573707650

What’s on the menu for Meredith, Tori, and Sandy, the three women in Guy’s life? Healthy lifestyles, upward mobility, meaningful sex? Or self-loathing and distorted priorities? Inspired by the strangely ubiquitous advertising trend of picturing attractive women blissfully eating salad, award-winning playwright Sheila Callaghan breaks all the rules of our image-obsessed culture in Women Laughing Alone With Salad. This raw comedy is served with a side of feminism and tossed with audacious imagery, biting social critique, and devastating humor.

Feminist Ryan Gosling

Feminist Ryan Gosling
Author: Danielle Henderson
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2012-08-14
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0762447362

Based on the blog of the same name, a humorous book pairs 120 photos of Ryan Gosling with favorite feminist theories.

Performing Marginality

Performing Marginality
Author: Joanne R. Gilbert
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780814328033

An academic study of stand-up comedy performed by females. This will aid in the understanding of power structures in our society.

Breaking Up (at) Totality

Breaking Up (at) Totality
Author: Debra Diane Davis
Publisher: SIU Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2000
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780809322282

Rhetoric and composition theory has shown a renewed interest in sophistic countertraditions, as seen in the work of such "postphilosophers" as Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Hélène Cixous, and of such rhetoricians as Susan Jarratt and Steven Mailloux. As D. Diane Davis traces today’s theoretical interest to those countertraditions, she also sets her sights beyond them. Davis takes a “third sophistics” approach, one that focuses on the play of language that perpetually disrupts the “either/or” binary construction of dialectic. She concentrates on the nonsequential third—excess—that overflows language’s dichotomies. In this work, laughter operates as a trope for disruption or breaking up, which is, from Davis’s perspective, a joyfully destructive shattering of our confining conceptual frameworks.