Gina Barreca

Gina Barreca
Born	1957
Spouse(s)	Michael Meyer
Website	GinaBarreca.com

Regina "Gina" Barreca (born 1957) is an American academic and humorist. She is professor of English literature and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut. ^[1]Her latest book, "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?" Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times, was published by St. Martin's Press in the spring of 2016.^[2]

Career

She is currently a columnist for the Hartford Courant,^[3] as well as a blogger for Psychology Today.^[4] She has appeared on dozens of radio and television programs including The Oprah Winfrey Show, 20/20, 48 Hours, The Joy Behar Show, Dr. Phil, and The Today Show.

An author and an editor, Barreca has also published articles in The New York Times,^[5] The Philadelphia Inquirer,^[6] The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Chicago Tribune,^[7][8] Harvard Business Review, The Dartmouth Alumni Magazine,^[9][10] The Orlando Sentinel,^[11][12] Ms. magazine,^[13] The Common Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education,^[14] and Cosmopolitan and elsewhere. Barreca's books have been translated into Chinese, German, Spanish, and Japanese.

A noted public speaker, Barreca lectures nationally and internationally about a variety of topics including humor, women's comedy, women's lives, everybody's stress, and gender issues in the workplace. She has served as an advisor to the Library of Congress for work on humor and the American character, and was deemed a "feminist humor maven" by Ms. magazine. Dave Barry declared that "Gina Barreca is very, very funny. For a woman."^[15]

Barreca cowrote a series of humor columns in The Washington Post with Gene Weingarten about the differences between men and women. These became the basis of the book she wrote with Weingarten, I'm with Stupid: One Man. One Woman. 10,000 Years of Misunderstanding Between the Sexes Cleared Right Up.^[16] They working for two years via email and on the phone without having met first.^[17]

In 2011, Barreca published a memoir called Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Co-education in the Ivy League.^[18]

Personal

Barreca married her husband, Michael Meyer, in 1991. They live in Storrs, Connecticut.^[19]

Works and publications

• "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?" (2016), ISBN 978-1-250-06074-7
• It's Not That I'm Bitter, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World (2009), ISBN 978-0-312-54726-4
• Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Co-education in the Ivy League (2005), ISBN 978-1-58465-299-1
• I'm with Stupid (2004), ISBN 978-0-7432-4420-6, co-written with Gene Weingarten
• An ABC of Vice: An Insatiable Woman's Guide (2003), ISBN 978-0-939883-11-0, illustrated by Nicole Hollander
• Too Much of a Good Thing is Wonderful (2000), ISBN 978-0-939883-06-6
• Sweet Revenge: The Wicked Delights of Getting Even (1995), ISBN 978-0-425-15766-4
• Untamed and Unabashed: Essays on Women and Humor in British Literature (1994), ISBN 978-0-8143-2136-2
• Perfect Husbands (and Other Fairy Tales) (1993), ISBN 978-0-385-47538-9
• They Used to Call Me Snow White…But I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of Humor (1991), ISBN 978-0-14-016835-8

She is also editor of the following volumes:

• Make Mine A Double: Why Women Like Us Like to Drink (or Not) (2011), ISBN 978-1-58465-759-0
• The Signet Book of American Humor (2004), ISBN 978-0-451-21058-6
• Don't Tell Mama: The Penguin Book of Italian American Writing (2002), ISBN 978-0-14-200247-6
• A Sit-down with the Sopranos: Watching Italian American Culture on TV's Most Talked About Series (2002), ISBN 978-0-312-29528-8
• The Erotics of Instruction (1997), ISBN 978-0-87451-806-1
• The Penguin Book of Women's Humor (1996), ISBN 978-0-14-017294-2
• Desire and Imagination: 20 Classic Essays in Sexuality (1995), ISBN 978-0-452-01150-2
• Fay Weldon's Wicked Fictions (1994)
• New Perspectives on Women and Comedy (1992), ISBN 978-2-88124-533-6
• Sex and Death in Victorian Literature (1990), ISBN 978-0-253-31015-6
• Last Laughs (1988) ISBN 978-0677220208

References

1. "Regina Barreca". University of Connecticut Department of English. University of Connecticut. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
2. Barreca, Gina. "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?". MacMillan Publishers. St. Martin's Press. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
3. "Gina Barreca". Hartford Courant. The Tribune. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
4. "Gina Barreca Ph.D.". Psychology Today. Sussex Publishers. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
5. Barreca, Gina. "HEPBURN MEMO; All Girl, but Never a Girly-Girl". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
6. Barreca, Regina. "A dying father, impatient to the end". The Philadelphia Inquirer. H.F. Gerry Lenfest. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
7. Barreca, Gina. "Patty Duke and the good girl/bad girl syndrome". Chicago Tribune. The Tribune. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
8. Barreca, Gina. "The $150,000 purse and other 'wife bonuses'". Chicago Tribune. The Tribune. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
9. "Keynote Speakers". Greenways Coming Home. Dartmouth College. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
10. Sundberg Seaman, Kelly. "Talking With: Gina Barreca '79". Dartmouth News. Dartmouth. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
11. Barreca, Gina. "Hillary Clinton is a woman who doesn't know her place". Orlando Sentinel. The Tribune. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
12. Barreca, Gina. "Here are 10 things you must stop doing immediately". Orlando Sentinel. The Tribune. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
13. Barreca, Gina. "Real stories, real laughter, real women". Ms. Magazine. Liberty Media for Women, LLC. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
14. Barreca, Gina. "Why I Love Fay Weldon". The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Chronicle of Higher Education Inc. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
15. Barreca, Gina. "It's Not That I'm Bitter...". MacMillan Publishers. St. Martin's Press. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
16. Barreca, Gina; Weingarten, Gene. "I'm with Stupid: One Man. One Woman. 10,000 Years of Misunderstanding Between the Sexes Cleared Right Up". Simon & Schuster. Simon & Schuster. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
17. Morales, Tatiana (9 February 2004). "'I'm With Stupid'". CBS News.
18. Barreca, Gina. "Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Co-Education in the Ivy League". University Press of New England. University Press of New England. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
19. "Regina Barreca - Connecticut Marriage Index". FamilySearch. 12 October 1991.

External links

• GinaBarreca.com
• Brainstorm at The Chronicle of Higher Education
• Education World Archive
• Gina Barreca at The University of Connecticut