From the Book - First edition.
Introduction / Linda Mizejewski and Victoria Sturtevant
Mabel Normand : new woman in the flapper age / Kristine Brunovska Karnick
Fay Tincher : female rowdiness and social change / Joanna E. Rapf
Mae West : the constant sinner / Kristen Hatch
Fanny Brice's new nose : beauty, ethnicity, and liminality / Kristen Anderson Wagner
Lucille Ball and the Lucy character : familiarity, female friendship, and the anxiety of competence / Lori Landay
Carol Burnett : home, horror, and hilarity on the Carol Burnett show / Linda Mizejewski
Lily Tomlin : queer sensibilities, funny feminism, and multimedia stardom / Suzanne Leonard
Moms Mabley and Wanda Sykes : "I'ma be me" / Bambi Haggins
Roseanne Barr : remembering Roseanne / Rosie White
Whoopi Goldberg in Hollywood : queering comic genre genealogies / Rebecca Wanzo
Margaret Cho's army : "we are the baddest motherfuckers on the block" / Rebecca Krefting
Ellen Degeneres's incorporate body : the politics of authenticity / Brenda R. Weber and Joselyn K. Leimbach
Sarah Silverman : cuteness as subversion / Anthony P. Mcintyre
Tina Fey : "quality" comedy and the body of the female comedy author / Julia Havas
Lena Dunham : cringe comedy and body politics / Maria Sulimma.
From the eBook - First edition.
Introduction / Linda Mizejewski and Victoria Sturtevant
Mabel Normand : new woman in the flapper age / Kristine Brunovska Karnick
Fay Tincher : female rowdiness and social change / Joanna E. Rapf
Mae West : the constant sinner / Kristen Hatch
Fanny Brice's new nose : beauty, ethnicity, and liminality / Kristen Anderson Wagner
Lucille Ball and the Lucy character : familiarity, female friendship, and the anxiety of competence / Lori Landay
Carol Burnett : home, horror, and hilarity on the Carol Burnett show / Linda Mizejewski
Lily Tomlin : queer sensibilities, funny feminism, and multimedia stardom / Suzanne Leonard
Moms Mabley and Wanda Sykes : "I'ma be me" / Bambi Haggins
Roseanne Barr : remembering Roseanne / Rosie White
Whoopi Goldberg in Hollywood : queering comic genre genealogies / Rebecca Wanzo
Margaret Cho's army : "we are the baddest motherfuckers on the block" / Rebecca Krefting
Ellen Degeneres's incorporate body : the politics of authenticity / Brenda R. Weber and Joselyn K. Leimbach
Sarah Silverman : cuteness as subversion / Anthony P. Mcintyre
Tina Fey : "quality" comedy and the body of the female comedy author / Julia Havas
Lena Dunham : cringe comedy and body politics / Maria sulimma.
From the eBook - First edition.
Introduction / Linda Mizejewski and Victoria Sturtevant
Mabel Normand : new woman in the flapper age / Kristine Brunovska Karnick
Fay Tincher : female rowdiness and social change / Joanna E. Rapf
Mae West : the constant sinner / Kristen Hatch
Fanny Brice's new nose : beauty, ethnicity, and liminality / Kristen Anderson Wagner
Lucille Ball and the Lucy character : familiarity, female friendship, and the anxiety of competence / Lori Landay
Carol Burnett : home, horror, and hilarity on the Carol Burnett show / Linda Mizejewski
Lily Tomlin : queer sensibilities, funny feminism, and multimedia stardom / Suzanne Leonard
Moms Mabley and Wanda Sykes : "I'ma be me" / Bambi Haggins
Roseanne Barr : remembering Roseanne / Rosie White
Whoopi Goldberg in Hollywood : queering comic genre genealogies / Rebecca Wanzo
Margaret Cho's army : "we are the baddest motherfuckers on the block" / Rebecca Krefting
Ellen Degeneres's incorporate body : the politics of authenticity / Brenda R. Weber and Joselyn K. Leimbach
Sarah Silverman : cuteness as subversion / Anthony P. Mcintyre
Tina Fey : "quality" comedy and the body of the female comedy author / Julia Havas
Lena Dunham : cringe comedy and body politics / Maria sulimma.
