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Fairman, Deborah. "'Unhampered Child of Liberty': Modernity, Representation and American Jewish Women, 1890-1930," English Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 1998.
In this dissertation I argue that Jewish women have served as cynosures of change in Jewish culture, and American Jewish culture in particular. The-turn-of-the-century representations of Jewish women in America that I have chosen to explore exemplify the paradox of the “unhampered child of liberty”—they were generally portrayed as having unconstrained equality but also described them as children, thus implicitly reinforcing the child/parent power imbalance, including control over the discourse. The women that I write about, Rosa Sonneschein, Molly Picon, and Rose Pastor Stokes, had some access to the arenas in which the struggle for control over representation could take place. “Unhampered Child of Liberty” is an attempt to add to the growing scholarship about Jewish American women and representation by attempting to move toward a theory of identity and change in which Jewish American women carry the load of being the subjects around which important discussions of and decisions within both religious and secular Jewish culture turn.
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