Pretty/funny :
Mizejewski, Linda.
Pretty/funny : women comedians and body politics / by Linda Mizejewski. - First edition. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014. - x, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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.
9780292756915 (cloth : alk. paper)
2013030223
Women comedians--United States.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--United States.
Racism--United States.
PN1590.W64 / M59 2014
792.702/8 / M8342m
Pretty/funny : women comedians and body politics / by Linda Mizejewski. - First edition. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014. - x, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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.
9780292756915 (cloth : alk. paper)
2013030223
Women comedians--United States.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--United States.
Racism--United States.
PN1590.W64 / M59 2014
792.702/8 / M8342m