Ladies Laughing

Author : Barbara Levy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134385935

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Ladies Laughing by Barbara Levy Pdf

This engaging and accessible book examines the world of seven contemporary, popular American women writers and their individual use of wit as a subtle and effective strategy to engage, or "control", the reader. A chapter is devoted to each of the seven writers - Lisa Alther, Rita Mae Brown, Nora Ephron, Shirley Jackson, Alison Lurier, Grace Paley, and Anne Tyler - and discusses their writings and their use of wit in the context of their lives. An opening chapter frames wit and control in psychological realities, and a concluding chapter summarizes the power of wit. A bibliography of the writers' works is also included, making this an ideal introduction and companion to these writers and their works.

Author : Sheila Lopez
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781462007370

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Retired Women—Laughing at Gravity by Sheila Lopez Pdf

As a psychotherapist for thirty years, Sheila Lopez spent several thousand hours talking with clients about the meaning of life, eventually learning the secret of good mental health in any chapter of life: Its all in how you look at it. In her collection of witty anecdotes, Sheila shares cheerful, inspiring advice on how retired women can have more fun in their everyday lives, find joy in simple pleasures, and realize that aging is funny! With hilarious honesty, Sheila reveals the secrets to achieving beauty and happiness as women age, through essays that provide entertaining glimpses at not only her life, but the lives of her close friends as well. From fashion secrets that include trading in polyester suits for glitter and bling to fulfilling a childhood dream of throwing a tea party for a group of girlfriends, Sheila teaches other women that it is okay to be proud of laugh lines and walk into the future with joy and gratitude. Retired WomenLaughing at Gravity is a wonderful reference manual for any woman who wants to turn the Golden Years into the most comical times of her life.

Author : Gail Finney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134304738

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Look Who's Laughing by Gail Finney Pdf

First Published in 1994. Look Who's Laughing belies the notion that in a joke the only place for a woman is in the butt, Rather than analysing women's humor in isolation, Gail Finney and twenty scholars map the terrain that the genders share and the areas that each hold exclusively. Their essays investigate witty heroines, sexual parodies, domestic humor and romantic power. They focus on comic drama and fiction, stand-up comedy, cartoons, and film describing the roles gender has played in the creation, reception and interpretation of comedy from the sixteenth century to present. They consider works by Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Zora Neale Hurston and Virginia Woolf, whilst discussing characters such as V.I. Warshawski, Molly Bloom and Elizabeth Bennet. The book's emphasis on comedy's diverse sources uncovers critical prejudices and defines new contexts enabling men and women to understand more about each other's attitudes towards humor, its means and ends.

Author : Michael Wall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000-05-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781783194193

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Women Laughing by Michael Wall Pdf

There are many fleeting moments when either Colin or Tony want to smother the laughs of their wives. The two couples fight for every inch of their lives, from the garden of a house in Ealing to the grounds of a mental asylum. Women Laughinghas been performed at the Royal Exchange Manchester, the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, the Palace Theatre Watford and was toured in 2000 by Not The National Theatre.

Author : Sheila Callaghan
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573707650

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Women Laughing Alone with Salad by Sheila Callaghan Pdf

What’s on the menu for Meredith, Tori, and Sandy, the three women in Guy’s life? Healthy lifestyles, upward mobility, meaningful sex? Or self-loathing and distorted priorities? Inspired by the strangely ubiquitous advertising trend of picturing attractive women blissfully eating salad, award-winning playwright Sheila Callaghan breaks all the rules of our image-obsessed culture in Women Laughing Alone With Salad. This raw comedy is served with a side of feminism and tossed with audacious imagery, biting social critique, and devastating humor.

Author : Anna Frey
Publisher : Demeter Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781772583182

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Who’s Laughing Now? by Anna Frey Pdf

From dour old women to buzzkills who can't take a joke, the stereotype of the humourless feminist has repeatedly been deployed to derail and delegitimize the women's rights movement. This collection skips the tired debates that ask whether feminists can be funny—we know the answer to this already—to instead investigate contemporary expressions and functions of humour within international feminist movements and communities. This interdisciplinary volume showcases critical analyses of cultural texts and events, personal accounts of producing and encountering feminist humour, and creative interruptions that pair laughter with insight. As a whole, this work seeks to sideline caricatures of the humourless feminist by promoting a vision of a diverse movement vibrant with innovative, generous, threatening, and, ultimately, triumphant laughter.

Author : Audrey Bilger
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Dissenters in literature
ISBN : 0814330541

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Laughing Feminism by Audrey Bilger Pdf

An examination of comedy and feminism in the works of early women British novelists.

Author : Zenia Sacks DaSilva,Gregory M. Pell
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443864725

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At Whom Are We Laughing? by Zenia Sacks DaSilva,Gregory M. Pell Pdf

They say that laughter is a purely human phenomenon, so exclusively ours that we brook no intruders except, of course, for the laughing hyena, the laughing jackass (officially known as the kookaburra bird of Australia), laughing matters, laughing gas, or the perennial laughing stock. But what is humor, that funny thing so varied in its colors and tones, so encompassing in its themes, so different from time to time and place to place? And when we poke fun, at whom are we really laughing? At Whom Are We Laughing? Humor in Romance Language Literatures is the selective product of a multi-national gathering of scholars sponsored by Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, to explore humor across the centuries in the literatures of Italy, France, Romania, the Iberian Peninsula and its diaspora. The volume contains thirty-one scholarly and interpretative papers on diverse aspects of their wit, provocative aspects that are, for the most part, little known to the general reader. Precisely because of its scope and diversity, its appeal should extend beyond academia into the libraries of the intellectually curious, be they English speakers or not, be they specialists in humanities, psychology, society and culture, or merely interested amateurs who frequent the many new humor societies and clubs that abound in the world of today.

Author : Michael Wall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:913361324

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Women Laughing by Michael Wall Pdf

Author : Martha Bensley Bruère,Mary Ritter Beard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037911455

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Laughing Their Way by Martha Bensley Bruère,Mary Ritter Beard Pdf

Women's humor in America during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Verse, prose, humorous drawings.

Author : Craig Smith
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781338547368

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The Wonky Donkey by Craig Smith Pdf

Kids will love this cumulative and hysterical read-aloud! The original viral sensation! "I was walking down the road and I saw... a donkey, Hee Haw! And he only had three legs! He was a wonky donkey." Children will be in fits of laughter with this perfect read-aloud tale of an endearing donkey. By the book's final page, readers end up with a spunky hanky-panky cranky stinky-dinky lanky honky-tonky winky wonky donkey!

Author : Nicole Graham
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781040030523

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Feminism and the Religious Significance of Laughing Bodies by Nicole Graham Pdf

This book identifies the significance of the body through a feminist reconceptualisation of laughter as a means of insight. It positions itself within the emerging scholarship on religion and humour but distinguishes itself by moving away from the emphasis on humour and instead focuses on the place and role of laughter. Through a feminist reading of laughter, which is grounded in the philosophical and psychological works of William James, this book emphasises the importance of the body to offer an exploration of laughter as a means of insight. In doing so, it challenges the classificatory orders of knowledge by recognising and arguing for the value of the body in the creation of knowledge and understanding. To demonstrate the centrality of the body for insight laughter, and thus the creation of knowledge, this book engages with laughter within three thematic areas: religious experience, gendered experiences of laughter, and the ethics of laughter. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in religious studies, theology, gender studies, humour studies, philosophy, and the history of ideas.

Author : Frances B. Gray
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813915139

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Women and Laughter by Frances B. Gray Pdf

Author : Joy Wiltenburg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000593617

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Laughing Histories by Joy Wiltenburg Pdf

Laughing Histories breaks new ground by exploring moments of laughter in early modern Europe, showing how laughter was inflected by gender and social power. "I dearly love a laugh," declared Jane Austen's heroine Elizabeth Bennet, and her wit won the heart of the aristocratic Mr. Darcy. Yet the widely read Earl of Chesterfield asserted that only "the mob" would laugh out loud; the gentleman should merely smile. This literary contrast raises important historical questions: how did social rules constrain laughter? Did the highest elites really laugh less than others? How did laughter play out in relations between the sexes? Through fascinating case studies of individuals such as the Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini, the French aristocrat Madame de Sévigné, and the rising civil servant and diarist Samuel Pepys, Laughing Histories reveals the multiple meanings of laughter, from the court to the tavern and street, in a complex history that paved the way for modern laughter. ​ With its study of laughter in relation to power, aggression, gender, sex, class, and social bonding, Laughing Histories is perfect for readers interested in the history of emotions, cultural history, gender history, and literature.

Author : Thomas Nelson
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781418554842

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Laugh Out Loud by Thomas Nelson Pdf

Couldn’t we all use a good laugh? Whether you’re running full-speed-ahead or disappointed that it’s Monday (again), you’ll find joy in these pages where women—and a few men—share their hilarious stories and insights on daily life. Pets, potlucks, husbands, hot flashes, typos, tykes...This world can be a funny place, and these stories are bound to prove it. Read a chapter to brighten your morning, or catch a few words to make you smile before bed. There’s never a bad time for a good laugh, and Laugh Out Loud is. .