Notes Chapter 1 Page 5 'it is as important for a woman ...": Interview with Mary Davis, vice president of Time-Warner Inc., and director of Magazine Manufacturing and Distribution, New York City, 1988. 6 "She didn't even laugh . . .": Anne Beatts, "Why More Women Aren't Funny," New Woman (March/April 1976): 22-28. 6-7 'in this culture ...": Rose Laub Coser, "Laughter Among Colleagues: A Study of the Social Functions of Humor Among the Staff of a Mental Hospital," Psychiatry 23 (February 1960): 81-95. 7 "If you say that . . .": Anne Beatts, "Can a Woman Get a Laugh and a Man Too?" Mademoiselle (November 1975): 140ff. 203 204 • Notes Page 9 "Hm! How can you prove that?": Joanna Russ, "Dear Colleague: I Am Not an Honorary Male." Reprinted in Pulling Our Own Strings: Feminist Humor and Satire, Gloria Kaufman and Mary Kay Blakely, eds. (Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1980): 182ff. 9—10 Professor Emily Toth . . . : Emily Toth, "Forbidden Jokes and Naughty Ladies," Studies in American Humor 4, nos. 1, 2 (1985): 8. 12 Women do not often laugh . . . : Interview with New York City-based psychoanalyst Dr. Natalie Becker, 1989. 13 "the humane humor rule": Emily Toth, "Female Wits," Massachusetts Review 22 (Winter 1981): 783-93. 14 Stand-up comedian Elayne Booster, 1989. 16 "A girl with brains . . .": Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (New York: Liveright, 1925): 11. 17 "Literary men . . .": Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963): 61. 17 Loos could be "counted on . . .": Gary Carey, Anita Loos (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988): 95-98. 19 "Comedy is itself an aggressive act . . .": Abbey Stein, quoted by Julia Klein, "The New Stand-up Comics," Ms. (October 1984): 116ff. 20 "I believed him . . .": Interview with stand-up comedian Susie Essman, New York City, 1989. 21 "Since we're all too scared . . .": Interview with writer Pamela West, New York City, 1989. 23 "Two strong women . . .": Joanna Russ, "What Can a Heroine Do? or Why Women Can't Write," Images of Women in Fiction: Feminist Perspectives, ed. Susan Koppelman Cornillon (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press: 1972): 3-20. 24 "Self-deprecation . . .": Nancy Walker, A Very Serious [44.200.193.174] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 13:19 GMT) Notes • 205 Page Thing: Women's Humor and American Culture (Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1988): 123. 25 "When male comics . . .": Paul E. McGhee, "The Role of Laughter and Humor in Growing Up Female," Becoming Female: Perspectives on Development, ed. Claire B. Kopp (New York: Plenum Press, 1979): 183-206. 25 In a landmark study . . . : Rose Laub Coser, "Laughter Among Colleagues: A Study of the Social Functions of Humor Among the Staff of a Mental Hospital," Psychiatry 23 (February 1960): 81-95. 27 "If somebody does something . . .": Gilda Radner, Interview in Denise Collier and Kathleen Beckett, Spare Ribs: Women in the Humor Biz (New York: St. Martin's, 1980): 133. 27 "if you're going to be made to look ridiculous . . .": Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle (New York: Fawcett Press, 1976): 47-52. 28 "sense of humor got to be a joke . . .": Erma Bombeck, Family—The Ties That Bind . . . and Gag! (New York: Fawcett Crest, 1987): 223. 31 "Just below the surface . . .": Cynthia Heimel, But Enough About You (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986): 148. 32 "Is she laughing at him?": Fay Weldon, Female Friends (London: Heinemann, 1975): 259-267. 35—36 "Have you ever heard of a father-in-law joke?": Interview with Dr. Bernice Sandier, director of the Project on the Status and Education of Women at the Association of American Colleges, Washington, D.C., 1989. Page 206 - Notes Chapter 2 39 "Cathy adores a minuet . . .": Theme song to The Fatty Duke Show, "The Cousins." Written by Sidney Ramin and Robert Wells. EMI U Catalogue Inc., 1963. 40 In their landmark book . . .: Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1979). 42 ". . . chutzpah . . .": Sarah Blacher Cohen. "The Jewish Literary Comediennes," Comic Relief: Humor in Contemporary American Fiction (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978): 172-186. 43 Helen Taylor's study ...: Helen Taylor, Scarlett's Women: Gone With the Wind and Its Female Fans (New Brunswick , N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1989): 78. 49 ". . . except for women like Lucille Ball . . .": Penny Marshall, interview in Denise Collier and Kathleen Beckett , Spare Ribs: Women in the Humor Biz (New York: St. Martin's, 1980): 174. 50 . . ."fallen" knowledge to make a...