Margaret Stetz
Ashgate
Hardback
168
2001
British Women's Comic Fiction 1890-1990: Not Drowning But Laughing focuses upon women who have not merely produced comic texts but used their comedies to examine laughter itself as a problematic issue. Whether to embrace laughter wholeheartedly whether to do so in a cautious and limited manner or whether to forswear it entirely-women's opinions and indeed feminists' opinions have seldom been in accord on an answer. For women writers of the past century a century of activism laughter has been something to be weighed carefully in terms of its ethical political and pragmatic relationship to feminist values as well as its ability or inability to help women survive.
Ashgate
Hardback
168
2001
British Women's Comic Fiction 1890-1990: Not Drowning But Laughing focuses upon women who have not merely produced comic texts but used their comedies to examine laughter itself as a problematic issue. Whether to embrace laughter wholeheartedly whether to do so in a cautious and limited manner or whether to forswear it entirely-women's opinions and indeed feminists' opinions have seldom been in accord on an answer. For women writers of the past century a century of activism laughter has been something to be weighed carefully in terms of its ethical political and pragmatic relationship to feminist values as well as its ability or inability to help women survive.