Pulling Our Own Strings: Feminist Humor and Satire - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253202515 ISBN 13: 9780253202512

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1994

Synopsis

"... a wonderful, riotous book." ―Rita Mae Brown

"It’s witty, charming, incisive―and these are the low points!" ―Loretta Swit

From Virginia Woolf to Nora Ephron, Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Ntozake Shange, Fanny Fern to Gloria Steinem, Pulling Our Own Strings shows us the roots, the history, and the rich variety of feminist humor and satire.

About this title

About the Author

GLORIA KAUFMAN, now retired, was Director of Women's Studies at Indiana University, South Bend. She has also published poetry and fiction, and edited In Stitches: A Patchwork of Feminist Humor and Satire. She is also a producer/director of several feminist videotapes. MARY KAY BLAKELY is the author of Wake Me When It's Over: A Journey to the Edge and Back, as well as many articles on women's lives and feminist issues.

From the Back Cover

Feminist humor is based on the perception that societies have generally been organized as systems of oppression and exploitation, and that the largest (but not the only) oppressed group has been the female. It is also based on conviction that such oppression is undesirable and unnecessary. It is a humor based on visions of change.

Edition details

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253202515
• ISBN 13: 9780253202512
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Kaufman Gloria, Blakely Mary Kay