Stand-up Comedy and Contemporary Feminisms

Sexism, Stereotypes and Structural Inequalities

AvEllie Tomsett,Claire Nally

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

What are the barriers to women’s participation in live comedy, and how are these barriers maintained in the digital era?In this book, Ellie Tomsett considers how the origins of stand-up comedy still impact on current live comedy production, and explains how the contemporary stand-up scene continues to reflect wider societal stereotypes about the capabilities of women.Using primary data collected from women-only comedy nights and immersive research with the UK Women in Comedy Festival in Manchester, Tomsett analyses examples of stand-up performed by contemporary comedians - including Bridget Christie, Luisa Omielan, Lolly Adefope and Gráinne Maguire - and provocatively questions how these performances relate to conceptions of feminist and postfeminist humour, as well as notions of backlash against contemporary feminisms. She focuses on live comedy that is explicitly feminist to consider how social attitudes to women, the increasing visibility of female labour outside the home, and the emergence of multiple (and sometimes contradictory) feminisms has influenced the comedy produced by women comedians in 21st century Britain.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-01-23
Mått:138 x 214 x 16 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Library of Gender and Popular Culture
Antal sidor:274
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350302327

Utforska kategorier

Komedi och stand-up inom Kultur
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Radio / podcasts inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Ellie Tomsett is lecturer in Media at Birmingham City University, UK. She was researcher in residence with the UK Women in Comedy Festival (2014-2019) and is co-founder of Mixed Bill, a comedy and gender research network. She has published on feminist and postfeminist stand-up comedy, self-deprecation, and protest humour.

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This is a lucidly written, critical, and powerful book that documents the historical exclusion of women from the UK comedy industry and connects it to the present cultural conjuncture, where feminist comedy and affirmative action coexist with continuing marginalisation and a complexified backlash against feminism.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Welcome to the stage1. How did we get here? The gendered evolution of the UK comedy circuit 2. Where are we now? Challenges today for women comics 3. Women-only comedy spaces: Addressing inequality on the UK comedy circuit 4. Online to IRL: The impact of social media on stand-up comedy by women5. Bodies on stage: Feminisms on the comedy circuit post-20136. An (un)equal and opposite reaction: The backlash and barriers facing feminist comedy 7. Comedy too 8. Conclusion: Reflections on UK comedy’s glass ceilingNotesReferencesIndex