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Pretty/funny : women comedians and body politics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mizejewski, Linda
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2014]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Women comedians > United States.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) > United States.
Racism > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Pretty/funny women and comedy's body politics:
  • Funniness, prettiness, and feminism
  • Kathy Griffin and the comedy of The D list
  • Feminism, postfeminism, Liz Lemonism: picturing Tina fey
  • Sarah Silverman: bedwetting, body comedy, and "a mouth full of blood laughs"
  • Margaret Cho is beautiful: a comedy of manifesto
  • "White people are looking at you!" Wanda Sykes's black looks
  • Ellen DeGeneres: pretty funny butch as girl next door.