{"product_id":"pretty-funny-women-comedians-and-body-politics","title":"Pretty\/Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003eWomen in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either \"pretty\" or \"funny.\" Attractive actresses with good comic timing such as Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, and Julia Roberts have always gotten plum roles as the heroines of romantic comedies and television sitcoms. But fewer women who write and perform their own comedy have become stars, and, most often, they've been successful because they were willing to be funny-looking, from Fanny Brice and Phyllis Diller to Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett. In this pretty-versus-funny history, women writer-comedians-no matter what they look like-have ended up on the other side of \"pretty,\" enabling them to make it the topic and butt of the joke, the ideal that is exposed as funny.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePretty\/Funny\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on Kathy Griffin, Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Cho, Wanda Sykes, and Ellen DeGeneres, the groundbreaking women comics who flout the pretty-versus-funny dynamic by targeting glamour, postfeminist girliness, the Hollywood A-list, and feminine whiteness with their wit and biting satire. Linda Mizejewski demonstrates that while these comics don't all identify as feminists or take politically correct positions, their work on gender, sexuality, and race has a political impact. The first major study of women and humor in twenty years, \u003ci\u003ePretty\/Funny\u003c\/i\u003e makes a convincing case that women's comedy has become a prime site for feminism to speak, talk back, and be contested in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinda Mizejewski is Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Ohio State University in Columbus. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eDivine Decadence: Fascism, Female Spectacle\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eMakings of Sally Bowles, Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHardboiled \u0026amp; High Heeled: The Woman Detective in Popular Culture.\u003c\/i\u003e Her most recent book, \u003ci\u003eIt Happened One Night\u003c\/i\u003e, is a study of the original romantic comedy film.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50466420883730,"sku":"9781477307601","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fa4ca956-4faa-4f13-9bbc-9adb03fe88bf.jpg?v=1730121313","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pretty-funny-women-comedians-and-body-politics","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}