Laughter, Humor, and the (Un)making of Gender [electronic resource] : Historical and Cultural Perspectives /
Foka, A.editor.
Liliequist, J.editor.
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.
Laughter, Humor, and the (Un)Making of Gender; Contents; List of Figures and Table; Acknowledgments; General Introduction; Part I Laughter, Humor, and Misogyny-Reconsiderations and New Perspectives; 1 Laughing at Ourselves: Gendered Humor in Classical Greece; 2 Is the Comic World a Paradise for Women? Medieval Models of Portable Utopia; 3 Taking Women's Work Seriously: Medieval Humor and the Gendering of Labor; 4 Gender Subversion and the Early Christian East: Reconstructing the Byzantine Comic Mime
5 Gossips' Mirth: Gender, Humor, and Female Spectators in Ben Jonson's The Staple of News (1626)6 The Magic of a Joke: Humor and Gender in Islamicate Ottoman Aesthetics; Part II Humor, Laughter, and the Rhetoric of Manhood; 7 Laughter, Sex, and Violence: Constructing Gender in Early Modern English Jestbooks; 8 Horny Priests and Their Parishioners; 9 Humor, Women, and Male Anxieties in Ancient Greek Visual Culture; 10 Hegemony and Humor: Class and Hegemonic Masculinities in Three Premodern Chinese Humorous Texts; 11 Gender, Humor, and Power in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature
12 Laughing at the Unmanly Man in Early Modern SwedenContributors; Index
Includes index.
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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