A Jewish feminine mystique? : Jewish women in postwar America

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A Jewish feminine mystique? : Jewish women in postwar America

edited by Hasia R. Diner, Shira Kohn, and Rachel Kranson

Rutgers University Press, c2010

  • pbk. : alk. paper
  • : hardcover

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Some of us were there before Betty : Jewish women and political activism in postwar Miami / Raymond A. Mohl
  • The polishness of Lucy S. Dawidowicz's postwar Jewish Cold War / Nancy Sinkoff
  • "Our defense against despair" : the progressive politics of the National Council of Jewish Women after World War II / Kathleen A. Laughlin
  • "It's good Americanism to join Hadassah" : selling Hadassah in the postwar era / Rebecca Boim Wolf
  • "A lady sometimes blows the shofar" : women's religious equality in the postwar reconstructionist movement / Deborah Waxman
  • Beyond the myths of mobility and altruism : Jewish immigrant professionals and Jewish social welfare agencies in New York City, 1948-1954 / Rebecca Kobrin
  • Negotiating new terrain : Egyptian women at home in America / Audrey Nasar
  • The bad girls of Jewish comedy : gender, class, assimilation, and whiteness in postwar America / Giovanna P. Del Negro
  • Judy Holliday's urban working girl characters in 1950s Hollywood film / Judith Smith
  • The "gentle Jewish mother" who owned a luxury resort : the public image of Jennie Grossinger, 1954-1972 / Rachel Kranson
  • Reading Marjorie Morningstar in the age of the feminine mystique and after / Barbara Sicherman
  • We were ready to turn the world upside down : radical feminism and Jewish women / Joyce Antler
  • Jewish women remaking American feminism : women remaking American Judaism : reflections on the life of Betty Friedan / Daniel Horowitz

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