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Box 48

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Get back in your place : an analysis of the BYU coed joke / Charles L. Fife, 1984

 Item — Box: 48, Folder: 9
Identifier: FA 1 Item 516
Scope and Contents

Submitted by BYU student Charles L. Fife for his Fall 1984 English 391 class. About the coed joke at BYU and its function to suppress a minority, and why men feel it necessary to say them. Contains a cover essay, autobiographical sketch, list of informants, and informant items. Items include coed jokes as variant of popular racial jokes, coeds are stupid jokes, coeds are fat, ugly and undesirable jokes, coeds compared to animals, and various other coed stories.

Dates: 1984
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / FA 1, Collection of student folklore projects

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