Mother Knows Best
At first blush, Jewish women would seem excellent candidates to embody the era’s dominant theme of women living domestic suburban lives, dissociated from the world of work and wages. After all, most American Jewish women enjoyed the comforts of the middle class, and in numbers greater than non-Jews.
- Hasia R. Diner, Shira M. Kohn, and Rachel Kranson introducing A Jewish Feminine Mystique?: Jewish Women in Postwar America, Rutgers University Press, 2010.
cookbooks negating the Jewish Mother's authority