You Never Call! You Never Write - A History of the Jewish Mother

Zusatztext After reading this, you'll call, you'll write, and you'll say thank you!'--Judy Gold, comedian Informationen zum Autor Joyce Antler is the Samuel Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture at Brandeis University. She is the author or editor of nine books, including The Journey Home: How Jewish Women Shaped Modern America and Talking Back: Images of Jewish Women in Popular Culture. She lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with her husband, and is the mother of two daughters. Klappentext The Jewish mother has become an icon of intrusive, obsessive parenting, caricatured in generations of films, novels, radio and television programs, stand-up comedy and jokebooks. A new, more positive, narrative, developed by feminist writers, comedians, scholars, and mothers themselves, demonstrates why the Jewish mother is a perfect role model for today's "intensive" parents. Zusammenfassung The Jewish mother has become an icon of intrusive, obsessive parenting, caricatured in generations of films, novels, radio and television programs, stand-up comedy and jokebooks. A new, more positive, narrative, developed by feminist writers, comedians, scholars, and mothers themselves, demonstrates why the Jewish mother is a perfect role model for today's "intensive" parents.

Product details

• Authors: Joyce Antler
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.03.2008
• EAN: 9780195341430
• ISBN: 978-0-19-534143-0
• No. of pages: 321
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Cultural Studies, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Jewish Studies, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural anthropology, History of the Americas, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities