Talking Back
Images of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture
Joyce Antler, ed.

Brandeis University Press
University Press of New England

Table of Contents

• Contents --
Translating Immigrant Women: Surfacing the Manifold Self - Janet Burstein
Projected Images: Jewish Women in Early American and Yiddish Film - Sharon Pucker Rivo
"The Me of Me": Voices of American Jewish Girls in Adolescent Diaries - Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Jewish Women Entertainers as Reformers - June Sochen
The Jewish-American World of Gertrude Berg: The Goldbergs on Radio and Television, 1930-1950 - Donald Weber
"Sweet Natalie": Herman Wouk's Message to the Gentiles - Susanne Klingenstein
Cinderellas Who (Almost) Never Became Princesses: Jewish Women in Postwar Popular Novels - Riv-Ellen Prell
Faith and Puttermesser: Contrasting Images of Two Jewish Feminists - Bonnie Lyons
Our Mothers and Our Sisters and Our Cousins and Our Aunts: Dialogues and Dynamics in Literature and Film - Sylvia Fishman
The Way She Really Is: Images of Jews and Women in the Films of Barbra Streisand - Felicia Herman
Fleshing Out Jewish Women in Contemporary Drama - Sarah B. Cohen
Eschewing Esther/Embracing Esther: The Changing Representation of Biblical Heroines - Gail Reimer
Feminism and Judaism in Women's Hagaddot - Maida Solomon
The Missing Piece: Jewish Women on Television, Too Jewish or Not Enough? - Joyce Antler




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