Louisa May Alcott

Regina Barreca

Susan Straight

Little Women

A selection of women's humor including quotations by Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Parker, Fran Lebowitz, Molly Ivens, and Whoopi Goldberg.

The Penguin Book of Women's Humor

Lee A. Jacobus

Adapted from a special issue of "Literature Interpretation Theory", this book explores one of the most significant voices in contemporary literature, approaching Cixous from the perspectives of feminist theory, materialist criticism, biographical criticism and reader-response methodologies.

Critical Impressions

Hélène Cixous

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Gene Weingarten

Two of the country's most original humor writers confront myths and stereotypes to establish once and for all that women are funnier than men--and vice versa. Illustrations.

One Man. One Woman. 10,000 Years of Misunderstanding Between the Sexes Cleared Right Up

I'm with Stupid

Nicole Hollander

The indefatigable humorist Regina Barreca is at it again. She and syndicated columnist Nicole Hollander (of Sylvia fame) have teamed up to create a book for and about women and their vices. Half text, half cartoons, An ABC of Vice offers a quick fix to any woman who needs a laugh, who needs permission to take her pleasures seriously while taking the rest of the world for a ride. This easy-to-access manual of mischievousness includes some hilarious ‘bad girl coupons" empowering the reader to indulge herself.

An Insatiable Women's Guide, Alphabetized

The ABC of Vice

First published in 1988, the 19 original essays (and three "Sylvia" cartoons) included in this volume deal with the gender-specific nature of comedy. This pioneering collection observes the creation of women’s comedy from a wide range of standpoints: political, sociological, psychoanalytical, linguistic, and historical. The writers explore the role of women’s comedy in familiar and unfamiliar territory, from Austen to Weldon, from Behn to Wasserstein. The questions they raise will lead to a redefinition of the genre itself.

Regina Barreca

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