The Unruly WomanUnruly women have been making a spectacle of themselves in film and on television from Mae West to Roseanne Arnold. In this groundbreaking work, Kathleen Rowe explores how the unruly womanoften a voluptuous, noisy, joke making rebel or "woman on top"uses humor and excess to undermine patriarchal norms and authority. At the heart of the book are detailed analyses of two highly successful unruly womenthe comedian Roseanne Arnold and the Muppet Miss