The Books
and Essays of Regina
Barreca Dedicated to Women,
Laughter, & the Comic Muse
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In Bookstores Now! BABES IN BOYLAND by Gina Barreca
A Personal History of Co-Education in the Ivy Leagues Take a look.
January 2008 update! Babes has just appeared in the comic strip Sylvia. See it here
Check this out. I'M WITH STUPID by Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Gene Weingarten and Gina Barreca One man. One woman. 10,000 years of misunderstanding between the sexes cleared right up.Get a preview.
But it is true that women's humor has only lately been brought to the
front of the line, shuffled up from the crowded background, to receive
its much deserved attention, laughter, and applause.
To
see the way wit functions for all of us--men and women alike--is to see
a map of our culture: to focus on things we've seen but not necessarily
processed or analyzed; explaining what we've sensed but not yet bothered
to define. Humor may have been ignored or challenged, but it has always
been a secretly potent, delightfully dangerous, wonderfully seductive and,
most importantly, powerful way to make a statement, to tell our stories,
to make sure everyone's voice is heard.