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| General Editor's Note | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| Chronology of Selected Works of Women's Humor in America | |
| The Wit of Women | p. 3 |
| "New England Women Humorists" | p. 9 |
| Laughing Their Way: Women's Humor in America | p. 17 |
| Pulling Our Own Strings: Feminist Humor and Satire | p. 23 |
| Redressing the Balance: American Women's Literary Humor from Colonial Times to the 1980s | p. 33 |
| "Wit, Sentimentality, and the Image of Women in the Nineteenth Century" | p. 61 |
| "A Laughter of Their Own: Women's Humor in the United States" | p. 85 |
| "From Kate Sanborn to Feminist Psychology: The Social Context of Women's Humor, 1885-1985" | p. 109 |
| "Why We Aren't Laughing... Any More" | p. 131 |
| "Mother Wit: Humor in Afro-American Women's Autobiography" | p. 141 |
| "Humoring the Sentence: Women's Dialogic Comedy" | p. 155 |
| "Sarah Kemble Knight and the Picaresque Tradition" | p. 173 |
| "The Return of the Widow Bedott: Mrs. F. M. Whitcher of Whitesboro and Elmira" | p. 183 |
| "Frances Miriam Whitcher: Social Satire in the Age of Gentility" | p. 215 |
| "The Play's the Thing: Anna Cora Mowatt Catches the Fashion Conscience" | p. 239 |
| "The 'Scribbling Women' and Fanny Fern: Why Women Wrote" | p. 255 |
| "Introduction to Samantha Rastles the Woman Question" | p. 287 |
| "Heterodite Humor: Alice Duer Miller and Florence Guy Seabury" | p. 311 |
| "'I Am Outraged Womanhood': Dorothy Parker as Feminist and Social Critic" | p. 327 |
| "Hurston, Humor, and the Harlem Renaissance" | p. 341 |
| "There's a Joker in the Menstrual Hut: A Performance Analysis of Comedian Kate Clinton" | p. 383 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 431 |
| Index | p. 437 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
ISBN: 9780815306221
ISBN-10: 0815306229
Series: Garland reference library of the humanities
Audience:
General
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 441
Published: 1st November 1993
Dimensions (cm): 22.9 x 15.2
x 5.080
Weight (kg): 0.726
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