You never call! you never write! a history of the Jewish mother - Antler, Joyce (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-299) and index.
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Keywords: 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); Electronic books