The modern Jewish girl's guide to guilt
By: edited by Ruth Andrew Ellenson.
Contributors: Ellenson, Ruth Andrew.
Publisher: Dutton, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Jewish women -- United States -- Anecdotes; Jews -- United States -- Humor; Guilt -- Humor; Jewish wit and humor
Genres: Anecdotes.; Humor.
Description: A humorous collection of original essays by some of today's foremost Jewish women writers includes Molly Jong-Fast's thoughts about displeasing her therapist and Lori Gottlieb's efforts to outwit her mother on the phone.
Table of contents: title: 1. Chai anxiety: what, me worry?; title: 2. Honor thy father and mother (or not): how to break your parent's heart; title: 3. Guiltily ever after: after the chuppah; title: 4. Our bubbies, our selves: the whole mishpocha; title: 5. Babes in goyland: love, sex and self image in an unkosher world; title: 6. Feeling treyfy: noshing forbidden fruit.