You Never Call! You Never Write! - Antler, Joyce (, Samuel Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture, Brandeis University)

The Jewish mother has become an icon of intrusive, obsessive parenting, caricatured in generations of films, novels, radio and television programs, stand-up comedy and jokebooks. A new, more positive, narrative, developed by feminist writers, comedians, scholars, and mothers themselves, demonstrates why the Jewish mother is a perfect role model for today's "intensive" parents.