Chapter 1 Introduction: Reweaving Women’s Comic Performance History

Chapter 2 Sentiments Unwomanly and Unnatural: Moral Ambiguity, Censorship and Public Perceptions of the Serio-Comic Performer

Chapter 3 I Must Tell You This: Intimacy, Gagging and Comic Licence in Performer-Audience Relationships

Chapter 4 A Comfort and Blessing to Man: Performed Irony and Comic Disruptions of Gender Stereotypes

Chapter 5 I’ve Only Got Myself to Blame: The Victims and Butts of Women’s Comic Self-Deprecation

Chapter 6 I Mustn’t Tell You What I Mean: Comic Innuendo as Performed Censorship

Chapter 7 Every Little Movement Has a Meaning of Its Own: The Comic Embodiment of Gender, Sexuality and the Grotesque

Chapter 8 Serio-Comic Reflections and Projections