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Fighting to become Americans : Jews, gender, and the anxiety of assimilation / Riv-Ellen Prell.
Author
Prell, Riv-Ellen, 1947-
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Language
English
Published/Created
Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, [1999], ©1999.
Description
vii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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E184.36.S65 P74 1999
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Jews
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United States
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Social life and customs
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Jewish women
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United States
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Social life and customs
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Jews
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Identity
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Jews
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Cultural assimilation
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Sex role
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Stereotypes (Social psychology)
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Ethnic relations
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Summary note
Why would an American ethnic group use racist terms to describe itself? Riv-Ellen Prell asks this compelling question as she observes how deeply antisemitic stereotypes - particularly gender stereotypes - infuse Jewish men's and women's views of one another.
Through her careful reading of these fluctuating yet consistent Jewish gender stereotypes, Prell offers an innovative history of American Jewish acculturation in the twentieth century.
Exploring Jewish self-representations in popular culture - magazines, fiction, sermons, films, stand-up comedy, and articles and letters in the Jewish press - Prell examines gender stereotypes like the turn-of-the-century "Ghetto Girl," the devouring Jewish mother of the postwar years, and, more recently, the "Jewish Prince" and the "JAP." Fighting to Become Americans is a provocative book for anyone interested in the dynamics that divide minority groups.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. Ghetto Girls and Jewish Immigrant Desire
Ch. 2. Marriage Making Americans
Ch. 3. Consuming Love: Marriage and Middle-Class Aspirations
Ch. 4. Fading Feuds: The Eerie Silence of the War Years
Ch. 5. Strangers in Paradise: The Devouring Jewish Mother
Ch. 6. The Jewish American Princess: Detachable Ethnicity, Gender Ambiguity and Middle-Class Anxiety
Ch. 7. Talking Back through Counter-Representations
App. A Note on the American Jewish Press as a Source 1897-1930.
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ISBN
0807036323
LCCN
98037369
OCLC
39849365
RCP
C - S
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