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This paper explores gender in stand‐up comedy based on 20 months of ethnographic research in Finland and recent media discussion involving the booking of performers for a national comedy tour. As the vast majority of stand‐up comedians are men, discussions of gender tend to focus on the anomalousness of female comedians. These debates often rely on essentialist views of women and stand‐up comedy,...
This chapter illuminates the international dynamics of Jessie Redmon Fauset's fiction by analyzing connections in her work among types of performance (textual, artistic, sartorial, political, and racial), by tracing the relationships between her journalism and her novels, and by exploring Fauset's treatments of domesticity and fashion as realms of feminized labor and creativity in the context of global...
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