ISBN:
9781137473301
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 256 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
DDC:
809.7
Keywords:
Wit and humor History and criticism
;
Sex role History
;
Comic, The
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Humor
;
Lachen
;
Geschichte
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Humor
;
Lachen
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
"The present volume shows how humor and laughter are not only fundamental to the construction and reproduction of gender norms and identities, but also provide powerful rhetorical tools for subversion and change. Scholars from a variety of disciplines have been invited to reflect on this claim before the nineteenth century"--
Abstract:
"The present volume shows how humor and laughter are not only fundamental to the construction and reproduction of gender norms and identities, but also provide powerful rhetorical tools for subversion and change. Scholars from a variety of disciplines have been invited to reflect on this claim before the nineteenth century"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Machine generated contents note:General Introduction; Jonas Liliequist and Anna FokaPART I: LAUGHTER, HUMOR, AND MISOGYNY RECONSIDERATIONS AND NEW PERSPECTIVES Introduction; Anna Foka1. Laughing at Ourselves: Gendered Humor in Classical Greece; David Konstan2. Is the Comic World a Paradise for Women? Medieval Models of Portable Utopia; Martha Bayless3. Taking Women's Work Seriously: Medieval Humor and the Gendering of Labor; Lisa Perfetti4. Gender Subversion and the Early Christian East: Reconstructing the Byzantine Comic Mime; Anna Foka5. Gossips' Mirth: Gender, Humor and Female Spectators in Ben Jonson's The Staple of News (1626); Kristine Steenbergh6. The Magic of a Joke: Humor and Gender in Islamicate Ottoman Aesthetics; Didem HavliogluPART II: LAUGHTER, HUMOR, AND THE RHETORIC OF MANHOOD Introduction; Jonas Liliequist7. Laughter, Sex and Violence: Constructing Gender in Early Modern English Jestbooks; Anu Korhonen8. Horny priests and their Parishioners; Olle Ferm9. Humor, women and male anxieties in ancient Greek visual culture; Alexandre G. Mitchell10. Discipline and Humor: Hegemonic Masculinities in Three Pre-modern Chinese Humorous Texts; Mario Liong11. Gender, Humor, and Power in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature; Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir12. Laughing at the Unmanly Man in Early Modern SwedenL Jonas Liliequist.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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