The girls : Jewish women of Brownsville, Brooklyn, 1940-1995 / Carole Bell Ford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ford, Carole Bell, 1934- author.

Series:

SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture.

SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish women.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 217 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [2000]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This book tells the stories of the Jewish women who came of age in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in the 1940s and 1950s. Through in-depth interviews with more than forty women, Carole Bell Ford explores the choices these women made and the boundaries within which they made them, offering fresh insights into the culture and values of Jewish women in the postwar period. Not content to remain in the past, The Girls is also a story of women who live in the present, who lead fulfilling lives even as they struggle to adjust to changes in American society that conflict with their own values and that have profoundly affected the lives of their children and grandchildren."--Jacket.

Contents:

Missing: fifty-one percent of the stories

Brownsville: the nurturing neighborhood

Jewish women: mothers

Coming of age in the forties: choices

The cult of domesticity: coming of age in the fifties

Unfinished business: becoming your own person

Conclusions: looking back.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438403007

1438403003

9780585287768

0585287767