04009nam 2200853 a 450 991077825660332120230207224948.00-19-028732-21-281-15886-097866111588660-19-803374-51-4356-0949-2(CKB)1000000000480294(EBL)416062(OCoLC)476246954(SSID)ssj0000275920(PQKBManifestationID)11205997(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000275920(PQKBWorkID)10223355(PQKB)10706371(SSID)ssj0001150759(PQKBManifestationID)12509413(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001150759(PQKBWorkID)11189044(PQKB)11024831(MiAaPQ)EBC416062(Au-PeEL)EBL416062(CaPaEBR)ebr10199693(CaONFJC)MIL115886(EXLCZ)99100000000048029420061027d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrYou never call! you never write![electronic resource] a history of the Jewish mother /Joyce AntlerOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20071 online resource (336 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-534143-0 0-19-514787-1 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.In You Never Call, You Never Write, Joyce Antler provides an illuminating and often amusing history of one of the best-known figures in popular culture--the Jewish Mother. Whether drawn as self-sacrificing or manipulative, in countless films, novels, radio and television programs, stand-up comedy, and psychological and historical studies, she appears as a colossal figure, intensely involved in the lives of her children. Antler traces the odyssey of this compelling personality through decades of American culture. She reminds us of a time when Jewish mothers were admired for their tenacity and nJewish womenMothersJewish womenHumorMothersHumorJewish women in literatureMothers in literatureJewish women in motion picturesMothers in motion picturesFeminist criticismStereotypes (Social psychology)Jewish women.Mothers.Jewish womenMothersJewish women in literature.Mothers in literature.Jewish women in motion pictures.Mothers in motion pictures.Feminist criticism.Stereotypes (Social psychology)306.874/3089924Antler Joyce1571135MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778256603321You never call! you never write3860347UNINA