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1 online resource (xii, 321 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-299) and index. |
| Contents |
The nagging stereotype. "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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Jewish women.
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Jewish women. |
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Mothers.
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Mothers. |
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Jewish women -- Humor.
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Humor.
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Mothers -- Humor.
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Jewish women in literature.
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Jewish women in literature. |
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Mothers in literature.
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Mothers in literature. |
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Jewish women in motion pictures.
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Jewish women in motion pictures. |
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Mothers in motion pictures.
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Mothers in motion pictures. |
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Feminist criticism.
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Feminist criticism. |
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Stereotypes (Social psychology)
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Stereotypes (Social psychology) |
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Electronic books.
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Mothers. |
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Humor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Antler, Joyce. You never call! you never write!. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 (DLC) 2006036249 |
| ISBN |
9780198033745 (electronic book) |
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0198033745 (electronic book) |
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1281158860 |
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9781281158864 |
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9780195147872 (hardcover) |
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0195147871 (hardcover) |
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