Women's Glib: A Collection of Women's Humor

by Roz Warren (Editor)

"A classic collection of humor. Cher to gefilte fish, panty angst to the Pope. Fanatically funny ..". -- Utne ReaderHumor and cartoons by such notables as Roz Chast, Cathy Crimmins, Nora Ephron, Jennifer Camper, Alison Bechdel, Nicole Hollander and more

Genres: Humor

173 pages, Paperback

First published December 12, 1991

About the author

Roz Warren writes for everyone from the Funny Times to the New York Times, has been featured on The Today Show and Morning Edition, and is the author of the books Our Bodies, Our Shelves: Library Humor and Just Another Day At Your Local Public Library, both of which you should buy immediately.

http://www.rosalindwarren.com

http://facebook.com/writerrozwarren

Reviews

[Rosa]

At this point, I think I can safely say that I do not like lesbian humor.
But there are also some beautiful, sensitive cartoons by Lynda Barry in here that I’m very glad I read. They’re not “humor,” but they’re here anyway. And I’m glad.

[Jenny · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was looking for funny, and got it here, mostly from the comic strips and art work, not the essays. They essays were a bit dated for me as I believe this book was written in the early 90s as there were references to Cher's pop stardom. One essay did give me a laugh-out-loud moment: One about a Girl Scout leader who took her troop to a mortuary as a fund raiser. Apparently, this mortuary gave a dollar to every field trip visitor. Anyway, the leader sent out a permission form to the girls' parents assuring them that "NO dead bodies will be seen." The photocopy machine had a smudge and the copies read like this "10 dead bodies will be seen." Parents were calling her all night, "Isn't one dead body enough?"

[Sharayu Gangurde · Rating 4 out of 5]

Its one of those smack-in-your face humour books and what makes it really really more interesting is the way the topics range from Food, Feminism, Male-bashing, Children, Death, Fairy tales, God...i even read one on the Pope! What an amazing selection of articles!! One hell of a hilarious compilation of laughter stock by awesome women writers! Im even looking forward to read its sequel- Women's Glibber! Awesome work by Rosalind Warren and i use the term 'awesome' generously here coz it makes very very generous and humorous comments on all issues reflecting women's interests and conflicts. If women miss out on reading 'this' book, they are missing very significant stuff in life!

[T60n3 · Rating 5 out of 5]

So recommended it's not even funny.

[Becky Galambos · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very outdated humor. It might have been funny 30 years ago, I don't know if it is a generational thing or it just isn't all that funny anymore. Going back to the friend who lent it to me.

[elstaffe · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars rounds up to 4. As is usual with a humor collection, there are some hits and misses. There were some pieces I particularly liked by Jennifer Berman, Myra Chanin, Nora Ephron, Fran Lebowitz, Merril Markoe, Mary Molyneux, but then there were also some pieces I really did not like/did not find at all funny. Clearly the only way to create a humor anthology of diverse authors in which I find absolutely everything humorous is to make one myself. *adds to to-do list" Still, it was an interesting look at the work of many writers of whom I'd never read and suss out a few as worth exploring further.

[Charlie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I was disappointed. Being a woman of a certain age and early 70s feminist, I thought this would be humorous, but it is by far too snarky and mean-spirited for my taste.