The anthology Gender and Humor: Interdis-ciplinary and International Perspectives, edited by Delia Chiaro and Raffaella Baccolini, sets out on an ambitious mission to draw together scholars from diverse fields to explore humor in different national and cultural contexts. In service of this goal, the anthology offers twenty chapters divided into three sections and opens with an editors' introduction titled “Humor: A Many Gendered Thing.” While grouping so many chapters into sections typically offers a window into the broader trajectory of a collection's most notable contribution to the field, only one of these sections (part 2) has any clearly defined thematic or conceptual rationale drawing the chapters together. The first section promises “six comprehensive and all-encompassing overviews of humor and gender from different perspectives ranging from linguistics to anthropology and stretching across both Eastern and Western cultures” (2-3), but that promise seems in conflict with the editors' note just a...

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