«Lost on the Map of the World»: Jewish-American Women's Quest for Home in Essays and Memoirs, 1890-Present (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820455426)

Vendor: Phillipa Kafka
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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«Lost on the Map of the World»: Jewish-American Women's Quest for Home in Essays and Memoirs, 1890-Present

$34.15

«Lost on the Map of the World»: Jewish-American Women's Quest for Home in Essays and Memoirs, 1890-Present

$34.15
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Phillipa Kafka
ISBN-10: 0820455423
ISBN-13: 9780820455426
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 12/13/2001
Pages: 255
Format: Paperback

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2002 pg. 45
By Phillipa Kafka
By Phillipa Kafka
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The Editor: 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.

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