You never call! you never write! : a history of the Jewish mother /
Antler, Joyce.
You never call! you never write! : a history of the Jewish mother / Joyce Antler. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. - xii, 321 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
9780195147872 (hardcover) 0195147871 (hardcover)
2006036249
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)
HQ1172 / .A58 2007
306.874/3089924
You never call! you never write! : a history of the Jewish mother / Joyce Antler. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. - xii, 321 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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.
9780195147872 (hardcover) 0195147871 (hardcover)
2006036249
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)
HQ1172 / .A58 2007
306.874/3089924