Lost on the Map of the World (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
255
Utgivningsdatum
2001-12-01
Förlag
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Medarbetare
Kafka, Phillipa (ed.)
Dimensioner
230 x 160 x 19 mm
Vikt
370 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780820455426

Lost on the Map of the World

Jewish-American Women's Quest for Home in Essays and Memoirs, 1890-Present

av Phillipa Kafka
Häftad,  Engelska, 2001-12-01

Slutsåld

"Lost on the Map of the World" explores Jewish-American women's enduring quest from ca. 1890 to the present to find a home(land) where they can have a Jewish identity and still enjoy gender equality. Originally, many were torn between obedience to confining patriarchal tradition and the attractions of an upwardly mobile secular lifestyle. Others opposed all traditional patriarchal constraints against women everywhere and engaged in political activism to improve the quality of all lives, not only their own. In contrast, many "new wave" Jewish-American women have succeeded in integrating feminism into their Jewish identity, although they have so far failed in their quest to do so in Israel.
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Phillipa Kafka, Professor Emerita and former Director of Women's Studies, Kean University in Union, New Jersey, is the author of four books: The Great White Way: African American Women Writers and American Success Mythologies; (Un)Doing the Missionary Position: Gender Asymmetry in Contemporary Asian American Women's Writing; (Out)Classed Women: Contemporary Chicana Writers on Inequitable Gendered Power Relations; and "Saddling La Gringa": Gatekeeping in Literature by Contemporary Latina Writers. She received her Ph.D in English literature at New York University.

Innehållsförteckning

Philippe Codde: A Willing Embrace of the Shadow: Cultural and Textual Hybridity in Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers; Barbara Finkelstein: Return to Poland; Ranen Omer-Sherman: "O, my Shehena who shall live in your tent?": Gender, Diaspora, and the Ambivalence of Return in E. M. Broner's A Weave of Women; Phillipa Kafka: From Pariah to Professor Emerita; Tobin Belzer: Written in and Read out: Why Erica Jong's Fear of Flying was not Considered "Jewish Writing"; Batya Weinbaum: Narrative from the Field; Batya Weinbaum: The Candelabra and the Typewriter; Ruth Knafo Setton: Searching for God in the Sierra; Dina Elenbogen: Selections from Drawn from Water.

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