The girls: Jewish women of Brownsville, Brooklyn, 1940-1995
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Main Author: Ford, Carole Bell 1934- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany, N.Y. State University of New York Press © 2000
Series:SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
"This book tells the stories of the Jewish women who came of age in Brownsville, Brooklyn, in the 1940s and 1950s. Through in-depth interviews with more than forty women, Carole Bell Ford explores the choices these women made and the boundaries within which they made them, offering fresh insights into the culture and values of Jewish women in the postwar period. Not content to remain in the past, The Girls is also a story of women who live in the present, who lead fulfilling lives even as they struggle to adjust to changes in American society that conflict with their own values and that have profoundly affected the lives of their children and grandchildren."--Jacket
Preface: Reclaiming our Past -- - Prologue They Still Call Themselves "The Girls": Profiles of Two Brownsville Women -- - Missing: Fifty-One Percent of the Stories -- - Brownsville: The Nurturing Neighborhood -- - Jewish Women: Mothers -- - Coming of Age in the Forties: Choices -- - The Cult of Domesticity: Coming of Age in the Fifties -- - Unfinished Business: Becoming Your Own Person -- - Conclusions: Looking Back -- - Epilogue Daughters: New Dilemmas
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 217 pages)
ISBN:0585287767
0791443639
0791443647
9780585287768

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