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Antler Joyce
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Titolo: |
You never call! you never write! [[electronic resource] ] : a history of the Jewish mother / / Joyce Antler
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Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.874/3089924 |
Soggetto topico: | Jewish women |
Mothers | |
Jewish women in literature | |
Mothers in literature | |
Jewish women in motion pictures | |
Mothers in motion pictures | |
Feminist criticism | |
Stereotypes (Social psychology) | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-299) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 n |
Titolo autorizzato: | You never call! you never write ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-19-028732-2 |
1-281-15886-0 | |
9786611158866 | |
0-19-803374-5 | |
1-4356-0949-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910451972903321 |
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