Laughter, Humor, and the (Un)Making of Gender

Historical and Cultural Perspectives
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-47330-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 4385 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Foka, A.

Liliequist, J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

David Konstan, New York University, USA
Martha Bayless, University of Oregon, USA
Lisa Perfetti, Whitman College, USA
Mario Liong, Centennial College, Hong Kong
Jóhanna Friðriksdóttir, University of Reykjavik, Iceland
Olle Ferm, Stockholm University, Sweden
Alexandre Mitchell, University of Oxford, UK
Kristine Steenbergh, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Anu Korhonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Didem Havlio?lu, Sehir University, Turkey