You never call! you never write! a history of the Jewish mother /

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Main Author: Antler, Joyce
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.