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Women's Laughter: A History of Power

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Women's Laughter: A History of Power
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In European culture, the ability to laugh and provoke laughter has long been a male prerogative: women's laughter was considered an affront to propriety and a detractor from beauty. When and how did laughter become a territory of freedom, and how is its history intertwined with the history of women's emancipation?

Sabine Melchior-Bonnet deciphers the historical roots of the taboos associated with laughter and shows how women gradually gained the right to enjoy it and joke about it. From the Old Testament and Greek cults to Virginia Woolf and stand-up comedy, the history of women's laughter reflects many contradictions and, conversely, achievements in European cultural history.

Sabine Melchior-Bonnet is a historian specializing in the history of emotions. She worked at the Collège de France and is the author of "History of the Mirror" and "The Other Side of Love," both published by UFO.
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