Jokes and targets /

Jokes and Targets takes up an appealing and entertaining topic -- the social and historical origins of jokes about familiar targets such as rustics, Jewish spouses, used car salesmen, and dumb blondes. Christie Davies explains why political jokes flourished in the Soviet Union, why Europeans tell jo...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Davies, Christie
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2011
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Mind over matter: a general theory of jokes about the stupid and the canny
  • Blondes, sex, and the French
  • Jewish women and Jewish men
  • Sex between men : places, occupations, and classes
  • The great American lawyer joke cycle
  • The rise of the Soviet joke and the fall of the Soviet Union
  • Conclusion.