{"product_id":"new-york-women-of-wit-in-the-twentieth-century-9780271095714","title":"New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeen as too smart, too sassy, too sexy, and too strident, female humorists have been resisted and overlooked. \u003ci\u003eNew York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e corrects this tendency, focusing on the foremothers of women's humor in modern America, who used satire, irony, and wit as indirect forms of social protest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book focuses on the women who stood on the periphery of predominantly male New York intellectual circles in the twentieth century. Sabrina Fuchs Abrams argues that the advent of modernism, the women's suffrage movement, the emergence of the New Woman and the New Negro Woman, and the growth of urban centers in the 1920s and '30s gave rise to a new voice of women's humor, one that was at once defiant and conflicted in defining female identity and the underlying assumptions about gender roles in American society. Her study gives special attention to the contributions of the satirists Edna St. Vincent Millay (pseudonym Nancy Boyd), Tess Slesinger, Dorothy Parker, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Dawn Powell, and Mary McCarthy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrounded in theories of humor, feminist and critical race theory, and urban studies, this book will find an audience among scholars and students interested in women writers, feminist humor, modern American literature, and African American studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eSabrina Fuchs Abrams\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English in the School for Graduate Studies at the State University of New York, Empire State. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMary McCarthy: Gender, Politics, and the Postwar Intellectual\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eTransgressive Humor of American Women Writers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLiterature of New York\u003c\/i\u003e. She is founder and cochair of the Mary McCarthy Society and Associate Editor of \u003ci\u003eStudies in American Humor\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penn State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50394181271826,"sku":"9780271095714","price":131.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2af12b37-233f-4682-abb3-119d2cd02c5e.jpg?v=1728999045","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/new-york-women-of-wit-in-the-twentieth-century-9780271095714","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}