Barbara Bennett’s Comic Visions, Female Voices, tells of the female side to southern humor. For generations humor has been a big part of the lives of southerners. Humor has bee incorporated into work, play and education. Unfortunately, until the 1970’s, women in the South were not encouraged to be outspoken in public, let alone show that they might have a sense of humor. This led to women joking around in their own private spheres of the home, like the kitchen.

Some topics in this essay:
Erma Bombeck, Female Voices, Change Women, Ann Stephens, Harrison Tyler, O’Connor Whitcher, Voice Identity”, Regina Barreca, Miriam Whitcher, Valerie Sayers, express themselves, female comedians, express themselves freely, women fought, themselves freely, religion sex, southern women, comedy humor, women allowed, visions female voices, female voices, comic visions female, women’s liberation, male form humor, freeing women’s expression,