Uproarious

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Different versions of chapter 1 were previously published as Cynthia Willett, Julie Willett, and Yael D. Sherman, “The Seriously Erotic Politics of Feminist Laughter,” Social Research 79, no. 1 (2012): 217–46; Copyright New School University; reprinted by permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press; and as Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett, “The Seriously Erotic Politics of Laughter: Bitches, Whores, and Other Fumerists,” in Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture, ed. Sharon Crasnow and Joanne Waugh (Plymouth, U.K.: Lexington Books, 2013): 15–36. A different version of chapter 2 was published as “Going to Bed White and Waking Up Arab: On Xenophobia, Affect Theories of Laughter, and the Social Contagion of the Comic Stage,” Critical Philosophy of Race 2, no. 1 (2014): 84–105; copyright 2014 The Pennsylvania State University; reprinted by permission of The Pennsylvania State University Press. A different version of chapter 3 was published as Cynthia Willett with Julie Willett, “Can the Subaltern Animal Laugh? Neoliberal Inversions, Cross-Species Solidarities, and Other Challenges to Human Exceptionalism,” in Interspecies Ethics, by Cynthia Willett (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), 29–59; copyright 2014 Columbia University Press; reprinted with permission of Columbia University Press.

Copyright 2019 by Cynthia Willett and Julie Willett

Uproarious: How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).