Laughing Feminism
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Author | : Catherine D'Ignazio |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2020-03-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0262358530 |
A new way of thinking about data science and data ethics that is informed by the ideas of intersectional feminism. Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask: Data science by whom? Data science for whom? Data science with whose interests in mind? The narratives around big data and data science are overwhelmingly white, male, and techno-heroic. In Data Feminism, Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein present a new way of thinking about data science and data ethics—one that is informed by intersectional feminist thought. Illustrating data feminism in action, D'Ignazio and Klein show how challenges to the male/female binary can help challenge other hierarchical (and empirically wrong) classification systems. They explain how, for example, an understanding of emotion can expand our ideas about effective data visualization, and how the concept of invisible labor can expose the significant human efforts required by our automated systems. And they show why the data never, ever “speak for themselves.” Data Feminism offers strategies for data scientists seeking to learn how feminism can help them work toward justice, and for feminists who want to focus their efforts on the growing field of data science. But Data Feminism is about much more than gender. It is about power, about who has it and who doesn't, and about how those differentials of power can be challenged and changed.
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.
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.