Are Teenage Girls Funny? Laughter, Humor and Young Women's Performance of Gender and Sexual Agency
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12975294 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fiona Cullen (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Girlhood Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1938-8209 • E-ISSN: 1938-8322 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/ghs.2015.080209 |
| OpenAlex | W2323940546 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
Much previous scholarly work has noted the gendered nature of humor and the notion that women use comedy in a different way than do their male peers. Drawing on prior work on gender and humor, and my ethnographic work on teen girl cultures, I explore in this article how young women utilize popular cultural texts as well as everyday and staged comedy as part of a gendered resource that provides potential sites for sex-gender transgression and conformity. Through a series of vignettes, I explore how girls do funny and provide a backdrop to perform youthful gendered identities, as well as establish, maintain, and transgress cultural and social boundaries. Moving on to explore young women and stand-up I question the potential in mobilizing humor as an educational resource and a site in which to explore sex-gender norms with young people
Agency (philosophy · Art · Comedy · Developmental psychology · Ethnography · Girl · Laughter · Literature · Social science · Sociology · Transgender · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Humor Studies and Applications · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Psychology · Social Psychology
Talking difference
The politics and poetics of transgression
Laughter and Ridicule
To Laugh or Not to Laugh? Performing Girlhood through Humor
Imagining the homonormative
Coping at School through Humour
Gender and Power
Bodies that matter
Is There a Queer Pedagogy? Or, Stop Reading Straight
Lads and Laughter
Feminisms re-figuring 'sexualisation', sexuality and 'the girl
Joking with Disability
Gender and humor in social context
Gender and humor
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution
Bodies That Matter
Schizoid subjectivities
Doing Gender
Controllable Laughter
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |