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You never call! you never write! [[electronic resource] ] : a history of the Jewish mother / / Joyce Antler



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Autore: Antler Joyce Visualizza persona
Titolo: You never call! you never write! [[electronic resource] ] : a history of the Jewish mother / / Joyce Antler Visualizza cluster
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)
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
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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.: 9910778256603321
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