You never call! you never write! [electronic resource] : a history of the Jewish mother / Joyce Antler.
By: Antler, Joyce.
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BookPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007Description: xii, 321 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): 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)Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.874/3089924 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-299) and index.
The nagging sterotype. "My Yiddishe mama": the multiple faces of the immigrant Jewish mother -- Molly Goldberg: "the prototype of the Jewish mother" in the twentieth century -- Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: social science uncovers the Jewish "family plot" -- From Marjorie Morningstar to Jennie Grossinger: the suburbs, the Catskills, and the Jewish mother joke -- "American mother of the year" versus monster mothers: will the real Sophie Portnoy please stand up? -- The new face of the Jewish mother. The mother and the movement: feminism constructs the Jewish mother -- Roseanne and the nanny: the Jewish mother as postmodern spectacle -- From second-generation memoirs to women's history: reclaiming the missing mother -- "They raised beautiful families": Jewish mothers narrate their lives -- We are all Jewish mothers: mothering in the new millennium.
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