A Jewish feminine mystique?
Subtitle: Jewish women in postwar America
By: edited by Hasia R. Diner, Shira M. Kohn, and Rachel Kranson.
Contributors: Diner, Hasia R.; Kohn, Shira M.; Kranson, Rachel.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780813547916; 9780813547923
Subjects: Jewish women -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Jewish women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Jewish women -- United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Feminism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Some of us were there before Betty : Jewish women and political activism in postwar Miami / Raymond A. Mohl; title: The polishness of Lucy S. Dawidowicz's postwar Jewish Cold War / Nancy Sinkoff; title: Our defense against despair : the progressive politics of the national council of Jewish women after World War II / Kathleen A. Laughlin; title: It's good Americanism to join Hadassah : selling Hadassah in the postwar era / Rebecca Boim Wolf; title: A lady sometimes blows the shofar : women's religious equality in the postwar reconstructionist movement / Deborah Waxman; title: Beyond the myths of mobility and altruism : Jewish immigrant professionals and Jewish social welfare agencies in New York City, 1948-1954 / Rebecca Kobrin; title: Negotiating new terrain : Egyptian women at home in America / Audrey Nasar; title: The bad girls of Jewish comedy : gender, class, assimilation, and whiteness in postwar America / Giovanna P. Del Negro; title: Judy Holliday's urban working girl characters in 1950s Hollywood film / Judith Smith; title: The "gentle Jewish mother" who owned a luxury resort : the public image of Jennie Grossinger, 1954-1972 / Rachel Kranson; title: Reading Marjorie Morningstar in the age of the feminine mystique and after / Barbara Sicherman; title: We were ready to turn the world upside down : radical feminism and Jewish women / Joyce Antler; title: Jewish women remaking American feminism : women remaking American Judaism : reflections on the life of Betty Friedan / Daniel Horowitz.