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Translating immigrant women : writing the manifold self : Mary Antin, Anzia Yezierska, Emma Goldman, Kate Simon -- Leaving home and mother : dramas of differentiation : Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, Tess Slesinger, Jo Sinclair, Marjorie Duhan Adler, Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Centering the devalued mother : re-vision and re-valuation : Rebekah Kohut, "Leah Morton", Emanie Sachs, Hana Stein, Jo Sinclair, Violet Weingarten, Tillie Olsen, Grace Paley, Adrienne Rich, Jane Lazarre, Phyllis Chesler -- Mirroring the mother : the ordeal of narcissism : Cynthia Ozick, Anne Roiphe, Alix Kates Schulman, Erica Jong, Shelley Steinman List, Rosellen Brown, Camille Baum, Daphne Merkin -- Re-storying Jewish women : hearing the mothers, speaking the feminist self : Vivian Gornick, Judith Plaskow, Adrienne Rich, Irena Klepfisz, Evelyn Torton Beck, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, Judith Katz, Blu Greenberg, Nessa Rapaport, E.M. Broner, Kim Chernin.