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Author Antler, Joyce.

Title You never call! you never write! : a history of the Jewish mother / Joyce Antler.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  306.874 ANTLER, JOYCE    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  306.8743 ANTLER    Check Shelf
Description xii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-299) and index.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- [pt. 1]. The nagging sterotype -- 1. "My Yiddishe mama" : the multiple faces of the immigrant Jewish mother -- 2. Molly Goldberg : "the prototype of the Jewish mother" in the twentieth century -- 3. Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict : social science uncovers the Jewish "family plot" -- 4. From Marjorie Morningstar to Jennie Grossinger : the suburbs, the Catskills, and the Jewish mother joke -- 5. "American mother of the year" versus monster mothers : will the real Sophie Portnoy please stand up? -- [pt. 2]. The new face of the Jewish mother -- 6. The mother and the movement : feminism constructs the Jewish mother -- 7. Roseanne and the nanny : the Jewish mother as postmodern spectacle -- 8. From second-generation memoirs to women's history : reclaiming the missing mother -- 9. "They raised beautiful families" : Jewish mothers narrate their lives -- 10. We are all Jewish mothers : mothering in the new millennium -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Archival sources -- Index.
Subject Jewish women.
Mothers.
Jewish women -- Humor.
Mothers -- Humor.
Jewish women in literature.
Mothers in literature.
Jewish women in motion pictures.
Mothers in motion pictures.
Feminist criticism.
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
ISBN 9780195147872 hardcover
0195147871 hardcover
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