Cartoons for change
This lesson asks how humorous language can be used to change the way we look at women in society. Specifically, we will look at the cartoons of Liza Donnelly, who draws for the New Yorker, and listen to her talk about the effects that cartoons can have. We will deconstruct several cartoons in order to examine different kinds of humor, such as pun, irony, sarcasm and rhetorical questions. Political cartoons consist of...