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- 1 2 Giselinde Kuipers, Good Humor, Bad Taste: A Sociology of the Joke , page 24, Walter de Gruyter, 2006, ISBN 9783110186154
- ↑ Karen Ross, The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media , chapter 6, John Wiley & Sons, 2011, ISBN 9781118114223
- ↑ Limor Shifman, Dafna Lemish, "Virtually Blonde: Blonde Jokes in the Global Age and Postfeminist Discourse", in: The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media
- ↑ Blundy, Anna (2007-08-25). "'Blonde' jokes aren't funny - No other minority would stand for this cruel stereotyping". The Spectator: 18–19. ISSN 0038-6952.
- ↑ Greenwood, D; LM Isbell (2002). "Ambivalent Sexism and the Dumb Blonde: Men's and Women's Reactions to Sexist Jokes". Psychology of Women Quarterly. Blackwell Publishers. 26 (4): 341–350. doi:10.1111/1471-6402.t01-2-00073. ISSN 0361-6843. S2CID 145543259.
- ↑ Ross, Karen (2011-09-07). The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9781118114223.