Title: Transgressive humor of American women writers /
Authors: Fuchs-Abrams, Sabrina, 1967-
Year: 2017
Subjects: Humorous stories, American History and criticism.; American literature Women authors History and criticism.; American literature History and criticism; American literature History and criticism.
Contents: No joke : transgressive humor of American women writers / Sabrina Fuchs Abrams -- "To amuse intelligently and cleverly" : Carolyn Wells and literary parody / Margaret D. Stetz -- From headlines to punchlines : suffragist humor in the popular press / Amanda T. Smith -- The scholarly transgressions of Constance Rourke / Sean Zwagerman -- Embattled embodiment : the sexual/intellectual politics of humor in Mary McCarthy's writing / Sabrina Fuchs Abrams -- Humor as clap back in Lucille Clifton's poetry / Mary Catherine Loving -- Fidel and gummy bears? : transgressive humor in contemporary Latina fiction / Sonia Alvarez Wilson -- Humor, gentrification, and the conservation of downtown New York in Lynne Tillman's No Lease on Life / Diarmuid Hester -- Funny women : political transgressions and celebrity autobiography / Anne-Marie Evans -- Roz Chast : from whimsy to transgression / LInda A. Morris -- "My mom's a cunt" : new bawds ride the fourth wave / Joanne Gilbert -- Dueling discourses : the female comic's double bind in the new media age / Rebecca Krefting.