Pretty/funny
Mizejewski, Linda.
Pretty/funny women comedians and body politics / [electronic resource] : by Linda Mizejewski. - First edition. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (278 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780292756922 0292756925
Racism--United States.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--United States.
Women comedians--United States.
Electronic books.
PN1590.W64 / M59 2014
792.702/8092
Pretty/funny women comedians and body politics / [electronic resource] : by Linda Mizejewski. - First edition. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (278 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780292756922 0292756925
Racism--United States.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--United States.
Women comedians--United States.
Electronic books.
PN1590.W64 / M59 2014
792.702/8092