You never call! you never write!: a history of the Jewish mother

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Nagging Stereotype

1. "My Yiddishe Mama": The Multiple Faces of the Immigrant Jewish Mother

2. Molly Goldberg: "The Prototype of the Jewish Mother" in the Twentieth Century

3. Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: Social Science Uncovers the Jewish "Family Plot"

4. From Marjorie Morningstar to Jennie Grossinger: The Suburbs, the Catskills, and the Jewish Mother Joke

5. "American Mother of the Year" Versus Monster Mothers: Will the Real Sophie Portnoy Please Stand Up?

The New Face of the Jewish Mother

6. The Mother and the Movement: Feminism Constructs the Jewish Mother

7. Roseanne and The Nanny: The Jewish Mother as Postmodern Spectacle

8. From Second-Generation Memoirs to Women's History: Reclaiming the Missing Mother

9. "They Raised Beautiful Families": Jewish Mothers Narrate Their Lives

10. We Are All Jewish Mothers: Mothering in the New Millennium

Epilogue

Notes

Archival Sources

Index