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Article: [Creme de la femme: the best of contemporary women's humor]
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- Herizons
- Article date:
- April 1, 1999
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CopyrightCopyright Herizons Spring 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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A few chuckles and a chortle or two just aren't enough.
Call me a dour and humourless Canadian, but that's the response I had to Creme de la Femme's collection of prose, poetry and cartoons. This anthology has its head and heart in the right place: its material is well-organized thematically and features most of the recognized names in American feminism; part of its royalties and proceeds will go to three worthwhile charities to fight breast cancer, domestic violence and AIDS. Yes, indeed, those feature are laudatory -- but few of the book's selections actually made me laugh.
You know the kind of laughing I mean -- those laughs of startled surprise and those whoops of recognition, those ...