Fighting to become Americans : Jews, gender, and the anxiety of assimilation / Riv-Ellen Prell.
- Format
- Book
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Published/Created
- Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, [1999], ©1999.
- Description
- vii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Availability
Available Online
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Details
- Subject(s)
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- Jews—United States—Social life and customs [Browse]
- Jewish women—United States—Social life and customs [Browse]
- Jews—United States—Identity [Browse]
- Jews—Cultural assimilation—United States [Browse]
- Sex role—United States [Browse]
- Stereotypes (Social psychology) [Browse]
- United States—Ethnic relations [Browse]
- Summary note
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- 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.
- Bibliographic references
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Inhalt
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- 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.
- ISBN
- 0807036323
- LCCN
- 98037369
- OCLC
- 39849365
- RCP
- C - S
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