A Jewish feminine mystique? : Jewish women in postwar America / / edited by Hasia R. Diner, Shira Kohn, and Rachel Kranson.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Diner, Hasia R.; Kohn, Shira M.; Kranson, Rachel.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xi, 269 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

• 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.