Pretty/Funny : Women Comedians and Body Politics.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (279 pages)
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Pretty/Funny Women and Comedy's Body Politics: Funniness, Prettiness, and Feminism -- 1. Kathy Griffin and the Comedy of the D List -- 2. Feminism, Postfeminism, Liz Lemonism: Picturing Tina Fey -- 3. Sarah Silverman: Bedwetting, Body Comedy, and "a Mouth Full of Blood Laughs" -- 4. Margaret Cho Is Beautiful: A Comedy of Manifesto -- 5. "White People Are Looking at You!": Wanda Sykes's Black Looks -- 6. Ellen DeGeneres: Pretty Funny Butch as Girl Next Door -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Women comedians-United States. Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)-United States. Racism-United States.