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Talking back : images of Jewish women in American popular culture / edited by Joyce Antler. [electronic resource]

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Antler, Joyce.
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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