Each spring, the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Gender and the Department of Women's & Gender Studies co-sponsor a distinguished lecture.
Thursday, April 6, 2017
6 p.m., Forum, Elaine Langone Center
FREE and open to the public
"On Humor: Feminist Makeovers from Sluts and Other Social Misfits
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Despite the perception that feminists lack a sense of humor, and that women along with other social misfits are the natural targets of laughter, women have long used comic tactics to subvert conventional norms. This talk explores how the very concept of the comic alters once its natural targets become laughter's central agents rather than its humiliated victims.
Prof. Willett is currently working on a book entitled The Belly Laugh: Affective and Emotional Politics of Humor. Her earlier books include Irony in the Age of Empire: Comic Perspectives on Freedom and Democracy; Interspecies Ethics; and Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities.
Prof. Willett is the Women's and Gender Studies Distinguished Lecturer and opening keynote speaker for the Ethics and Aesthetics of Stand-Up Comedy Conference.
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Shahnaz Khan, Wilfred Laurier. "Finding Space Beneath My Feet: Post September 11th Reflections of a Muslim Feminist" (2003)
Charis Thompson, Harvard. "Heterosex: The Human Embryo in the New Reproductive and Genetic Technologies" (2002)
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