Humoring Resistance
Humoring Resistance

Author: Dianna C. Niebylski

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 0791484955

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Contextualizing theoretical debates about the political uses of gendered humor and female excess, this book explores bold new ways in which a number of contemporary Latin American women authors approach questions of identity and community. The author examines the connections among strategic uses of humor, women's bodies, and resistance in works of fiction by Laura Esquivel, Ana Lydia Vega, Luisa Valenzuela, Armonía Somers, and Alicia Borinsky. She shows how the interarticulation of the comic and comic-grotesque vision with different types of excessive female bodies can result in new configurations of female subjectivity.

Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation
Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation

Author: Sarah Emanuel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-01-09

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1108757308

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Empire-critical and postcolonial readings of Revelation are now commonplace, but scholars have not yet put these views into conversation with Jewish trauma and cultural survival strategies. In this book, Sarah Emanuel positions Revelation within its ancient Jewish context. Proposing a new reading of Revelation, she demonstrates how the text's author, a first century CE Jewish Christ-follower, used humor as a means of resisting Roman power. Emanuel uses multiple critical lenses, including humor, trauma, and postcolonial theory, together with historical-critical methods. These approaches enable a deeper understanding of the Jewishness of the early Christ-centered movement, and how Jews in antiquity related to their cultural and religious identity. Emanuel's volume offers new insights and fills a gap in contemporary scholarship on Revelation and biblical scholarship more broadly.

Focused Psychotherapy
Focused Psychotherapy

Author: Nick Cummings

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1135824231

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Focused Psychotherapy Offers practitioners an approach to psychotherapeutic treatment that is both financially viable and has sufficient clinical depth to assure genuine psychological growth. Providing a strikingly clear description of this approach, this volume enables psychotherapists to quickly hone in on the client's true agenda, therefore avoiding unnecessarily long and drawn out therapeutic work.

Focused Psychotherapy
Focused Psychotherapy

Author: Nicholas A. Cummings

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0876307896

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First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Cuban Studies 37
Cuban Studies 37

Author: Louis A. Pérez

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2006-10-17

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0822971089

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Cuban Studies has been published annually by the University of Pittsburgh Press since 1985. Founded in 1970, it is the preeminent journal for scholarly work on Cuba. Each volume includes articles in both English and Spanish, a large book review section, and an exhaustive compilation of recent works in the field. Widely praised for its interdisciplinary approach and trenchant analysis of an array of topics, each volume features the best scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Cuban Studies 37 includes articles on environmental law, economics, African influence in music, irreverent humor in postrevolutionary fiction, international education flow between the United States and Cuba, and poetry, among others. Beginning with volume 34 (2003), the publication is available electronically through Project MUSE®, an award-winning online database of full-text scholarly journals. More information can be found at http://muse.jhu.edu/publishers/pitt_press/.

Refocused Psychotherapy as the First Line Intervention in Behavioral Health
Refocused Psychotherapy as the First Line Intervention in Behavioral Health

Author: Nicholas A Cummings

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-08-21

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1136259651

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Provides a roadmap for putting psychotherapy back as the first line intervention in mental health Advocates discovering the behavioral causes of anxiety and depression, rather than prescribing medication Psychotropic medications are being seriously challenged in terms of efficacy, and the public is becoming wary of their alarming side effects, which continue to mount Emphasizes behavioral healthcare, grounded in psychopathology Is written with the National Health Reform Act of 2010 in mind, making this book very timely Demonstrates how the psychotherapist should work side-by-side with the physician to provide efficacy, effectiveness, and efficiency without compromising grounding in behavioral health Describes the Biodyne model, an evidence-based, field-tested system

Gender and Humor
Gender and Humor

Author: Delia Chiaro

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05-09

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1317804155

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In the mid-seventies, both gender studies and humor studies emerged as new disciplines, with scholars from various fields undertaking research in these areas. The first publications that emerged in the field of gender studies came out of disciplines such as philosophy, history, and literature, while early works in the area of humor studies initially concentrated on language, linguistics, and psychology. Since then, both fields have flourished, but largely independently. This book draws together and focuses the work of scholars from diverse disciplines on intersections of gender and humor, giving voice to approaches in disciplines such as film, television, literature, linguistics, translation studies, and popular culture.

Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers
Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers

Author: Sabrina Fuchs Abrams

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-11-09

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 3319567292

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This collection is the first to focus on the transgressive and transformative power of American female humorists. It explores the work of authors and comediennes such as Carolyn Wells, Lucille Clifton, Mary McCarthy, Lynne Tillman, Constance Rourke, Roz Chast, Amy Schumer and Samantha Bee, and the ways in which their humor challenges gendered norms and assumptions through the use of irony, satire, parody, and wit. The chapters draw from the experiences of women from a variety of racial, class, and gender identities and encompass a variety of genres and comedic forms including poetry, fiction, prose, autobiography, graphic memoir, comedic performance, and new media. Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers will appeal to a general educated readership as well as to those interested in women’s and gender studies, humor studies, urban studies, American literature and cultural studies, and media studies.