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Talking back : images of Jewish women in American popular culture / edited by Joyce Antler. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life
- Brandeis series in American Jewish history, culture, and life Talking back
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish women--United States--Social life and customs.
- Jewish women.
- Jews in literature.
- Women in popular culture--United States.
- Women in popular culture.
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- United States.
- Jews in popular culture--United States.
- Jews in popular culture.
- Jews in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 301 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Hanover, NH : Published by University Press of New England [for] Brandeis University Press, c1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Translating immigrant women : surfacing the manifold self / Janet Burstein
- Projected images : portraits of Jewish women in early American film / Sharon Pucker Rivo
- The "me" of me : voices of Jewish girls in adolescent diaries of the 1920s and 1950s / Joan Jacobs Brumberg
- From Sophie Tucker to Barbra Streisand : Jewish women entertainers as reformers / June Sochen
- The Jewish-American world of Gertrude Berg : the Goldergs on radio and television, 1930-1950 / Donald Weber
- Sweet Natalie : Herman Wouk's messeanger to the gentiles / Susanne Klingenstein
- Cinderellas who (almost) never become princesses : subversive representations of Jewish women in postwar popular novels / Riv-Ellen Prell
- Faith and puttermesser : contrasting images of two Jewish feminists / Bonnie Lyons
- Our mothers and our sisters and our cousins and our aunts : dialogues and dynamics in literature and film / Sylvia Barack Fishman
- The way she really is : images of Jews and women in the films of Barbra Streisand / Felicia Herman
- From critic to playwright : fleshing out Jewish women in contemporary drama / Sarah Blacher Cohen
- Eschewing esther/embracing esther : the changing representation of biblical heroines / Gail Twersky Reimer
- Claimingour questions : feminism and Judaism in women's haggadot / Maida E. Solomon
- Epilogue : Jewish women on television : too Jewish or not enough? / Joyce Antler.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-285) and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 1-61168-071-9
- 0-585-26549-6
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