FinneyLook Who's Laugh
Stud/Gender/C
Chapter 1 Unity in Difference?: An Introduction
Gail Finney; Part I Drama; Chapter 2 "That's How It Is": Comic Travesties of Sex and Gender in Early Sixteenth-Century Venice
Eric A. Nicholson; Chapter 3 Imagining Consummation: Women's Erotic Language in Comedies of Dekker and Shakespeare
Mary Bly; Chapter 4 Dwindling into Wifehood: The Romantic Power of the Witty Heroine in Shakespeare
Dryden
Congreve
and Austen
Donald A. Bloom; Chapter 5 Confinement Sharpens the Invention: Aphra Behn's The Rover and Susanna Centlivre's The Busie Body
Suz-Anne Kinney; Chapter 6 Masquerade
Modesty
and Comedy in Hannah Cowley's The Belle's Strategem
Erin Isikoff; Chapter 7 The Sphinx Goes Wild(e): Ada Leverson
Oscar Wilde
and the Gender Equipollence of Parody
Corinna Sundararajan Rohse; Part II Fiction; Chapter 8 When Women Laugh Wildly and (Gentle)Men Roar: Victorian Embodiments Of Laughter
Karen C. Gindele; Chapter 9 The Feminine Laughter of No Return: James Joyce and Dorothy Richardson
Kristin Bluemel; Chapter 10 Courtship
Comedy
and African-American Expressive Culture in Zora Neale Hurston's Fiction
Barbara Monroe; Chapter 11 Feminism/Gender/Comedy: Meredith
Woolf
and the Reconfiguration of Comic Distance
David McWhirter; Chapter 12 "Between the Gaps": Sex
Class and Anarchy in the British Comic Novel of World War II
Phyllis Lassner; Chapter 13 Alice Childress's Like One of the Family: Domestic and Undomesticated Domestic Humor
Zita Z. Dresner; Chapter 14 Funny
Isn't It?: Testing the Boundaries of Gender and Genre in Women's Detective Fiction
Gloria A. Biamonte; Part III Film
Stand-Up Comedy
and Cartoon Art; Chapter 15 Hollywood
1934: "Inventing" Romantic Comedy
Kay Young; Chapter 16 Mae West Was Not a Man: Sexual Parody and Genre in the Plays and Films of Mae West
Andrea J. Ivanov; Chapter 17 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Sexism or Emancipation from Machismo?
Florence Redding Jessup; Chapter 18 Between the Laughter: Bridging Feminist Studies through Women's Stand-Up Comedy
Allison Fraiberg; Chapter 19 Comic Strip-Tease: A Revealing Look at Women Cartoon Artists
Jaye Berman Montresor;
