Liberated jokes: Sexual humor in all-female groups

Humor

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 337-366

  Bing, Janet ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Feminism; Joke telling; Sexual humor; Stereotypes; Women and language; Women's sense of humor

Indexed keywords

EID: 36849002804     PISSN: 09331719     EISSN: 16133722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/HUMOR.2007.017     Document Type: Article

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