Women Laughing

Author : Jeannie B. Thomas
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0813917239

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Featherless Chickens, Laughing Women, and Serious Stories by Jeannie B. Thomas Pdf

Interested in preserving her family folklore, Jeannie B. Thomas recorded detailed oral histories from her mother and two grandmothers. While analyzing the tapes of these sessions, she notices the inappropriate laughter often accompanied the retelling of painful stories. In this book, Thomas combines these personal narratives with original scholarship drawing on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Julia Kristeva to uncover meaning behind the startling presence of unconventional laughter in women's histories.

Author : Sheila Callaghan
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Audrey Bilger
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Barbara Levy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134385867

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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 : Anna Frey
Publisher : Demeter Press
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Gail Finney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : 54,8 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 : Barbara Levy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Jacqueline Winspear
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781641292948

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This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing by Jacqueline Winspear Pdf

A 2021 Edgar Award Nominee for Best Critical/Biographical “Jacqueline Winspear has created a memoir of her English childhood that is every bit as engaging as her Maisie Dobbs novels, just as rich in character and detail, history and humanity. Her writing is lovely, elegant and welcoming.”—Anne Lamott The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series offers a deeply personal memoir of her family’s resilience in the face of war and privation. After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her story tackles the difficult, poignant, and fascinating family accounts of her paternal grandfather’s shellshock; her mother’s evacuation from London during the Blitz; her soft-spoken animal-loving father’s torturous assignment to an explosives team during WWII; her parents’ years living with Romany Gypsies; and Winspear’s own childhood picking hops and fruit on farms in rural Kent, capturing her ties to the land and her dream of being a writer at its very inception. An eye-opening and heartfelt portrayal of a post-War England we rarely see, This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing chronicles a childhood in the English countryside, of working class indomitability and family secrets, of artistic inspiration and the price of memory.

Author : Lance Rubin
Publisher : Ember
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780525644705

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Crying Laughing by Lance Rubin Pdf

A tragicomic story of bad dates, bad news, bad performances, and one girl's determination to find the funny in high school from the author of Denton Little's Deathdate. Winnie Friedman has been waiting for the world to catch on to what she already knows: she's hilarious. It might be a long wait, though. After bombing a stand-up set at her own bat mitzvah, Winnie has kept her jokes to herself. Well, to herself and her dad, a former comedian and her inspiration. Then, on the second day of tenth grade, the funniest guy in school actually laughs at a comment she makes in the lunch line and asks her to join the improv troupe. Maybe he's even . . . flirting? Just when Winnie's ready to say yes to comedy again, her father reveals that he's been diagnosed with ALS. That is . . . not funny. Her dad's still making jokes, though, which feels like a good thing. And Winnie's prepared to be his straight man if that's what he wants. But is it what he needs? Caught up in a spiral of epically bad dates, bad news, and bad performances, Winnie's struggling to see the humor in it all. But finding a way to laugh is exactly what will see her through. **A Junior Library Guild Selection**

Author : Michael Wall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:913361324

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Women Laughing by Michael Wall Pdf

Author : Jacqueline Winspear
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 9781569473306

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Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear Pdf

She started as a maid in an aristocratic London household; studied her way into prestigious Girton College at Cambridge; then became a front-line nurse in World War I. There she found - and lost - an important part of herself. Now she has set up on her own as a private investigator, one who has learned that coincidences are meaningful. And Fate brings her a case that will force her to confront the ghost that has haunted her for over ten years. A welcome addition to the sleuthing scene' - Elizabeth George, author of I, Richard 'A rare treat for mystery fans' - Charles Todd'

Author : Thomas Nelson
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,6 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. .

Author : Craig Smith
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Zarqa Nawaz
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443416955

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Laughing All The Way To The Mosque by Zarqa Nawaz Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR THE LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR, THE KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE AND TWO SASKATCHEWAN BOOK AWARDS Zarqa Nawaz has always straddled two cultures. She’s just as likely to be agonizing over which sparkly earrings will “pimp out” her hijab as to be flirting with the Walmart meat manager in a futile attempt to secure halal chicken the day before Eid. “Little Mosque on the Prairie” brought Zarqa’s own laugh-out-loud take on her everyday culture clash to viewers around the world. And now, in Laughing All the Way to the Mosque, she tells the sometimes absurd, sometimes challenging, always funny stories of being Zarqa in a western society. From explaining to the plumber why the toilet must be within sitting arm’s reach of the water tap (hint: it involves a watering can and a Muslim obsession with cleanliness “down there”) to urging the electrician to place an eye-height electrical socket for her father-in-law’s epilepsy-inducing light-up picture of the Kaaba, Zarqa paints a hilarious portrait of growing up in a household where, according to her father, the Quran says it’s okay to eat at McDonald’s—but only if you order the McFish.