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    A Jewish Feminine Mystique?
    Jewish Women in Postwar America

    Hasia Diner (Edited by), Shira Kohn (Edited by), Rachel Kranson (Edited by), Rachel Kranson (Introduction by), Joyce Antler (Contributions by), Giovanna Del Negro (Contributions by), Daniel Horowitz (Contributions by), Rebecca Kobrin (Contributions by), Kathleen Laughlin (Contributions by), Raymond A Mohl (Contributions by), Audrey Nasar (Contributions by), Barbara Sicherman (Contributions by), Nancy Sinkoff (Contributions by), Judith Smith (Contributions by), Deborah Waxman (Contributions by), Rebecca Wolf (Contributions by)

    9780813547916

    Hardback, published 10 September 2010

    284 pages, 9 illustrations
    22.9 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm, 0.567 kg

    "A Jewish Feminine Mystique? succeeds admirably in expanding scholarship on postwar American Jewish women."
    (Journal of American History)
    "Although no one volume can fill the 'gaping hole' in scholarship about Jewish women in the postwar years, the editors and contributors have made a valiant first effort. Recommended."
    (Choice)
    "A fascinating anthology. For readers who relish the joy of reading Jewish and American history, this book will be a delight."
    (Jewish Book World)
    "A marvelously fresh look at Jewish women in the post war period. This volume of collected essays deeply enriches our understanding of the varied experiences of Jewish women in the 1950s. Reading this volume will forever transform the way the reader thinks about Jewish women, female power, and the pervasive influence of gender."

    - Shuly Schwartz (Jewish Theological Seminary)
    "A Jewish Feminine Mystique? succeeds in describing the complex roles of Jewish women in the time of Betty Friedan and the rise of the second wave feminist movement in America. This book provides a rich chorus of voices, further proving that whatever the lives of Jewish women in the American postwar period were, they weren't simple."

    (Lilith)
    "The essays in this fine collection help to revise our understanding of Jewish women and the feminine mystique. Jewish women were affected by the pervasive folk myths of the 1950s, but, like Friedan, they were hardly defined by the feminine mystique; they were too busy starting revolutions."
    (Hadassah Magazine)

    In The Feminine Mystique, Jewish-raised Betty Friedan struck out against a postwar American culture that pressured women to play the role of subservient housewives. However, Friedan never acknowledged that many American women refused to retreat from public life during these years. Now, A Jewish Feminine Mystique? examines how Jewish women sought opportunities and created images that defied the stereotypes and prescriptive ideology of the "feminine mystique."

    As workers with or without pay, social justice activists, community builders, entertainers, and businesswomen, most Jewish women championed responsibilities outside their homes. Jewishness played a role in shaping their choices, shattering Friedan's assumptions about how middle-class women lived in the postwar years. Focusing on ordinary Jewish women as well as prominent figures such as Judy Holliday, Jennie Grossinger, and Herman Wouk's fictional Marjorie Morningstar, leading scholars explore the wide canvas upon which American Jewish women made their mark after the Second World War.

    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
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