They Used to Call Me Snow White...But I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of Humor

Regina Barreca. Penguin Books, $12.95 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-14-016835-8

Despite a tendency to make sweeping generalizations about both sexes, Barreca offers illuminating analyses of humor as a weapon and of the Good Girl/Bad Girl dichotomy in books, movies and TV. (Apr.)

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