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1044952
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b799322
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Antler, Joyce.
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You never call! you never write! : : a history of the Jewish mother /\ Joyce Antler.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2007.
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1 online resource (xii, 321 pages) :: illustrations
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0190287322
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: 0198033745
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: 1281158860
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: 9780190287320
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: 9780198033745
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: 9781281158864
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: 9781435609495
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: 9786611158866
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0195147871
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0195341430
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9780195147872
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9780195341430
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-299) and index.
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| Contents
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The nagging stereotype. "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.
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| Abstract
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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.
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Feminist criticism.
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Jewish women in literature.
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Jewish women in motion pictures.
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Jewish women, Humor.
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Jewish women.
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Mothers in literature.
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Mothers in motion pictures.
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Mothers, Humor.
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Mothers.
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Stereotypes (Social psychology)
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FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS-- Parenting-- Motherhood.
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Feminist criticism.
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Jewish women in literature.
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Jewish women in motion pictures.
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Jewish women.
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Jüdin
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Literatur
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Mothers in literature.
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Mothers in motion pictures.
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Mothers.
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Mutter
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Stereotypes (Social psychology)
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Film.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.874/3089924
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| LC Classification
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HQ1172.A58 2007eb
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HU 1691rvk
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