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You never call! you never write!

by Antler, Joyce.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Published by : Oxford University Press, (Oxford ; | New York :) Physical details: xii, 321 p. : ill.
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) | Electronic books.
Year: 2007
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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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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