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Subject(s)

• 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

• 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

• 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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