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Performing Gender and Comedy: Theories, Texts and Contexts by Hengen S (Paperback, 1998)

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This volume explores comedy as a place where gender and sexuality, through performance, challenge sexist and heteronormative forces in Western culture. Contributors investigate the effects of gender, sexuality, sexual identity, race, class, and nationality on humour and comedic performance. Chapters address how particular historical periods seem to affect who laughs at what, why and with what consequences. The book engages in a critical conversation with past and present thinkers to articulate the political, cultural and social effects of comedy.