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Liberated Jokes: Sexual Humor In All-Female Groups, Janet Bing Jan 2007

Liberated Jokes: Sexual Humor In All-Female Groups, Janet Bing

English Faculty Publications

Females have formerly been under-represented in jokes. Many scholars have claimed that joke making is primarily a male activity, particularly in the domain of sexual jokes. In this paper, I discuss sexual jokes that women share with each other both in all-female groups and by e-mail. After reviewing some widely held assumptions about women and jokes, I explore liberated women's jokes, including their structure, use of stereotypes, and subversive ideas. Finally, I discuss why humor theory is incomplete without the inclusion of a female perspective and suggest that women should tell more jokes.

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Being Incommensurable/Incommensurable Beings: Ghosts In Elizabeth Bowen's Short Stories, Jeannette Ward Smith Jun 2006

Being Incommensurable/Incommensurable Beings: Ghosts In Elizabeth Bowen's Short Stories, Jeannette Ward Smith

English Theses

I investigate the ghosts in Elizabeth Bowen’s short stories, “Green Holly” and “The Happy Autumn Fields.” By blending psychoanalytic feminism and social feminism, I argue that these female ghosts are the incommensurable feminine—a feminine that exceeds the bounds of phallocentric logic and cannot be defined by her social or symbolic manifestations. An analysis of Bowen’s ghosts as actual ghosts is uncharted territory. Previous Bowen critics postulate that Bowen’s ghosts are imaginary figments or metaphors. These critics make Bowen’s stories “truthful” representations of the world, but, as such, Bowen’s ghosts become representations of the world’s phallocentric order. In contrast, I argue …

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History Unbecoming, Becoming History, Toni M. Massaro Jan 2000

History Unbecoming, Becoming History, Toni M. Massaro

Michigan Law Review

The last few decades have seen a torrent of legal commentary supporting gay equality and attacking the punishment, failure to protect, and refusal to affirm gay conduct and identity. William Eskridge, a prominent voice in this fin-de-siecle literature, now draws together and expands on his previous work in Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet. Though far more successful in shaping the uses of the past than in showing the way to the future, the book instructs even where it fails. It augurs a century that could well witness the end of official discrimination against gay individuals, and the relegation …

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Pioneers In The Legal Profession: Some Of The First African-American And Women Lawyers In Tennessee, Dwight Aarons Nov 1999

Pioneers In The Legal Profession: Some Of The First African-American And Women Lawyers In Tennessee, Dwight Aarons

Scholarly Works

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Toward A Global Critical Feminist Vision: Domestic Work And The Nanny Tax Debate, Taunya Lovell Banks Jan 1999

Toward A Global Critical Feminist Vision: Domestic Work And The Nanny Tax Debate, Taunya Lovell Banks

Faculty Scholarship

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Curriculum Vitae (Feminae): Biography And Early American Women Lawyers, Carol Sanger Jan 1994

Curriculum Vitae (Feminae): Biography And Early American Women Lawyers, Carol Sanger

Faculty Scholarship

In this review, Carol Sanger examines the recent surge of interest in the lives of early women lawyers. Using Jane Friedman's biography of Myra Bradwell, America's First Woman Lawyer, as a starting point, Professor Sanger explores the complexities for the feminist biographer of reconciling for herself and for her subject conflicting professional, political, and personal sensibilities. Professor Sanger concludes that to advance the project of women's history, feminist biographers ought not retreat to the comforts of commemorative Victorian biography, even for Victorian subjects, but should instead strive to present and accept early women subjects on their own complex terms.

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George Eliot: Beyond Feminism, Mary J Dengler Jan 1993

George Eliot: Beyond Feminism, Mary J Dengler

UNLV Retrospective Theses & Dissertations

The three central conflicts of George Eliot's life--an emotional conflict with male rejection, an intellectual conflict with orthodox Christianity, and a gender conflict with the limitations imposed on women--can be attributed largely to the nineteenth-century feminine ideologies. While Eliot used her nonfiction to criticize the ideas responsible for her conflicts, she used her poetry and fiction to dramatize the conflicts and develop an ideal of humanity. Eliot considered feminism, in Romola, as a resolution to these conflicts, then moved beyond feminism to develop her human ideal. This ideal, which transcends gender ideologies in response to natural and moral law, posits …

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Network News, April 1991, Diana Estorino Apr 1991

Network News, April 1991, Diana Estorino

Network News

April 1991 edition of Network News, a Tampa Bay lesbian feminist periodical. Issue includes advertisements for local events, political activism opportunities, networking opportunities for the LGBTQ+ community, opinion columns, and classifieds. Included is an inserted petition in support of an amendment to the Hillsborough County Human Rights Ordinance that would ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

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Network News, March 1991, Diana Estorino Mar 1991

Network News, March 1991, Diana Estorino

Network News

March 1991 edition of Network News, a Tampa Bay lesbian feminist periodical. Issue includes advertisements for local events, political activism opportunities, networking opportunities for the LGBTQ+ community, opinion columns, classifieds, and information about the 1991 New Year’s Eve Party.

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Maine Statewide News Letter No. 15 (April 1981), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff Apr 1981

Maine Statewide News Letter No. 15 (April 1981), Institute For Nonviolence, Education, Research, And Training Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

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