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Hysterical Feminism: Humor, Affect, and Comedy’s Role in Feminism’s Second Wave, 1955-1980

Description:

The dominant narrative of second wave feminism assumes that feminist activism was motivated primarily by anger. Second-wave feminists, in this picture, are understood as grumpy and without a sense of humor. “Hysterical Feminism” joins scholarship invested in revisiting the second wave to disrupt...

Author:

Kein, Kathryn

Keyword:

Feminism, Popular Culture, Comedy, Second-Wave Feminism, and Humor

GW Unit:

American Studies

Degree:

Ph.D.

Advisor:

Nash, Jennifer C

Committee Member(s):

Kosek, Joseph Kip, Lothian, Alexis, Guglielmo, Thomas, and McRuer, Robert

Resource Type:

Thesis or Dissertation