Regina Barreca

Author of They Used to Call Me Snow White...but I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of Humor

Includes the names: Gina Barreca, Regina Barreca, ed. Regina Barreca, ed. Regina Barecca, Regina; Editor Barreca

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Gina Barreca, professor of English and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut, is the author or editor of over twenty books including Make Mine a Double: Why Women Like Us Like to Drink (or Not). — biography from They Used to Call Me Snow White...but I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of Humor… (more)

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Works by Regina Barreca

They Used to Call Me Snow White...but I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of… 130 copies, 3 reviews

The Penguin Book of Women's Humour (Editor) 114 copies

I'm with Stupid: One Man. One Woman. 10,000 Years of Misunderstanding… 79 copies, 3 reviews

Don't Tell Mama!: The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing (Editor) 51 copies, 1 review

It's Not That I'm Bitter . . .: Or How I Learned to Stop… 49 copies, 1 review

Perfect Husbands (& Other Fairy Tales) (& Other Fairy Tales : Demystifying… 43 copies, 1 review

The Signet Book of American Humor (Editor) 33 copies

Women of the Century: Thirty Modern Short Stories (Editor) 29 copies

Desire and Imagination: 20 Classic Essays in Sexuality (Meridian) (Editor) 28 copies

Make Mine a Double: Why Women Like Us Like to Drink (Or Not) (Editor) 24 copies, 12 reviews

Sweet Revenge: The Wicked Delights of Getting Even 23 copies, 1 review

Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Co-Education in the Ivy League 17 copies, 3 reviews

Too Much of a Good Thing Is Wonderful 12 copies

"If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?": Questions and… 12 copies, 1 review

A Sitdown With the Sopranos: Watching Italian American Culture on TV's… (Editor) 12 copies

The Erotics of Instruction (Editor) 11 copies

Sex and Death in Victorian Literature (Editor) 9 copies

An ABC of Vice: The Woman's Bedside Companion 8 copies

Last Laughs (Studies in Gender and Culture) (Editor) 8 copies

Untamed and Unabashed: Essays on Women and Humor in British Literature… 2 copies

Fay Weldon's Wicked Fictions (Editor) 2 copies

New Perspectives on Women and Comedy (Studies in Gender and Culture, Vol… (Editor) 2 copies

Fast Funny Women (Editor) 1 copy

Fast Funny Women: 75 Essays of Flash Nonfiction 1 copy

Fast Fierce Women: 75 Essays of Flash Nonfiction 1 copy

Fast Fallen Women: 75 Essays of Flash NonFiction 1 copy

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Also by Regina Barreca

Little Women (Introduction, some editions) 25,471 copies, 393 reviews

The Prince (Introduction, some editions) 22,845 copies, 246 reviews

Moll Flanders (Afterword, some editions) 7,477 copies, 101 reviews

She (Introduction, some editions) 2,864 copies, 74 reviews

Complete Stories (Introduction) 1,015 copies, 15 reviews

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes -and- But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes: The… (Introduction, some editions) 433 copies, 14 reviews

The Book That Changed My Life: 71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate the Books… (Contributor) 377 copies, 17 reviews

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1957-01-14

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Brooklyn, New York, USA

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Storrs, Connecticut, USA

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Dartmouth College

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humorist

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University of Connecticut

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GINA BARRECA has appeared on 20/20, 48 Hours, NPR, The Today Show, Joy Behar, and Oprah to discuss gender, power, politics, and humor. Her books, which have been translated into seven languages, include They Used to Call Me Snow White But I Drifted, Babes in Boyland, and It’s Not That I’m Bitter. She is a professor of English and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut.

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