TY - BOOK AU - Antler,Joyce TI - You never call! you never write!: a history of the Jewish mother SN - 9780195147872 (hardcover) AV - HQ1172 .A58 2007 U1 - 306.874/3089924 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Jewish women KW - Mothers KW - Humor KW - Jewish women in literature KW - Mothers in literature KW - Jewish women in motion pictures KW - Mothers in motion pictures KW - Feminist criticism KW - Stereotypes (Social psychology) N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0725/2006036249-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0725/2006036249-d.html ER -