Laughter, Humor, and the (Un)making of Gender
Historical and Cultural Perspectives
(Sprache: Englisch)
Humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. Throughout history, it has played a crucial role in defining gender roles and identities. This collection offers an in-depth thematic examination of this...
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Humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. Throughout history, it has played a crucial role in defining gender roles and identities. This collection offers an in-depth thematic examination of this relationship between humor and gender, spanning a variety of historical and cultural backdrops.
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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
Autoren-Porträt
David Konstan, New York University, USAMartha Bayless, University of Oregon, USALisa Perfetti, Whitman College, USAMario Liong, Centennial College, Hong KongJóhanna Friðriksdóttir, University of Reykjavik, IcelandOlle Ferm, Stockholm University, SwedenAlexandre Mitchell, University of Oxford, UKKristine Steenbergh, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The NetherlandsAnu Korhonen, University of Helsinki, FinlandDidem Havlio?lu, Sehir University, Turkey
Bibliographische Angaben
- 2015, 1st ed., 256 Seiten, Maße: 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben von Foka, A.; Liliequist, J.
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 1349501395
- ISBN-13: 9781349501397
Sprache:
Englisch
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