Barbra Streisand
Subtitle: redefining beauty, femininity, and power
By: Neal Gabler
Series: Jewish lives; Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780300210910
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Singers; Influence; Biography; Motion picture actors and actresses
Description: Neal Gabler examines Streisand's life and career through the prism of otherness-- a Jew in a gentile world, a self-proclaimed homely girl in a world of glamour, a kooky girl in a world of convention --and shows how central it was to Streisand's triumph as one of the voices of her age.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-267) and index.
Table of contents: title: An introduction. Shaynkeit; title: Mieskeit; title: Chutzpah; title: Tsezingen zikh; title: Bine aktrise; title: Holivaud; title: Supervuman; title: Shaygetz; title: Rediskovering Iugnt; title: Macher; title: Tsufridnkeit.