How bad things have become. Or perhaps it is more accurate to say: how bad things have
always been, but it is only now that some people with particular kinds of class and race …

Over the last few years, we have been witnessing an extraordinary new visibility of women's
anger. Since the election of Trump in the US and the unprecedented disclosures of …

We've all heard the one about the angry feminist killjoy. But what about the angry feminist
killjoy who also cracks jokes? While a rich vein of enraged feminist humor currently …

In public life, the problem of civility is often presented as a choice over whether citizens
should recover social norms of civility to sustain politics in the face of polarization or else …

In this chapter, I argue that contemporary media culture is characterised by communicative
injustice. I define this as the denial of meaningful voice and I am particularly concerned in …

As early as the 1980s critics and commentators alike began referring to the «postfeminist
generation», ie, a generation of women who had profited from major feminist achievements …

This chapter explores debates pertaining to women's public speech about gendered
violence and trauma, specifically in an Anglo-American context and in the wake of# MeToo …

This study comprises an analysis of the (possibly) feminist humour of the televisual
comedies written and performed by Michaela Coel and Hannah Gadsby. The focus of the …

Within the fields of feminist media and cultural studies, questions around authenticity and
gender have become increasingly pronounced in recent years. This chapter outlines the …

Im Format der Stand-up-Comedy betritt ein* e Komiker* in mit einer mehr oder weniger
deutlich fiktionalisierten Version von sich selbst die Bühne und erzählt humorvolle …