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Talking back

Name: Talking back
Author: Joyce Antler
ISBN: 9780874518429

by Joyce Antler

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Overview

Fourteen provocative essays challenge traditional notions of Jewish female identity presented in mass media images, films, narrative, and stories by portraying the American Jewish woman not only as subject but as shaper of American popular culture.

Sometimes internalizing negative presentations but more often "talking back" to them, Jewish women created alternative images that became tools of rebellion, subverting and dismantling such stereotypes as the "Yiddishe Mama," the Jewish Mother, and the Jewish American Princess. Over the course of the century -- and particularly as a consequence of feminism -- Jewish female novelists, screenwriters, dramatists, entertainers, and grass-roots feminists were able to create new possibilities for the expression of Jewish women's voices.

About the Author, Joyce Antler

JOYCE ANTLER is samuel Lane Professor and Chairperson, Department of American Studies, Brandeis University. Her most recent book is The Journey Home: Jewish Women and the American Century (1997).

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Harriet Malinowitz

...[T]he collection seems torn between the goals of inquiry and cheerleading....Much of it is fun, and much of it provides valuable leads to little-known primary sources.
— The Women's Review of Books