You never call! you never write! : a history of the Jewish mother / Joyce Antler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Antler, Joyce.

Antler, Joyce, Corporate Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-299) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-028732-2

1-281-15886-0

9786611158866

0-19-803374-5

1-4356-0949-2

OCLC:

476246954