Connections and collisions : identities in contemporary Jewish-American women's writing / edited by Lois Rubin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : looking at Jewish women's writing through dual lenses / Lois Rubin -- Cynthia Ozick's classical feminism / Daniel Walden -- Coming of age : the creative development of seven Jewish women writers and their characters / Lois Rubin -- Close to the bone : the fiction of Nora Gold / Ruth Panofsky -- Tova Reich's fiction : perspectives on mothering / Blossom S. Kirschenbaum -- Wayfinding : (re)constructing Jewish identity in Mazel and Lovingkindness / Melanie Levinson -- Seasons of our (dis)content, or, Orthodox women in Walden : Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls / Gloria L. Cronin -- Revising the golem, revisiting Frankenstein : cultural negotiations in Ozick's The Puttermesser papers and Piercy's He, she and it / Ruth Bienstock Anolik -- A feminist interpretation of Jewish history and spirituality : collision and fusion in Marge Piercy's later poetry and fiction / S. Lillian Kramer -- A mensh fights back in Joanne Greenberg's fiction / Sanford E. Marovitz -- Split worlds and intersecting metaphors : representations of Jewish and lesbian identity in the works of Irena Klepfisz / Monica Bachmann -- An old discussion about feminism and Judaism : faith and renewal in Grace Paley's short fiction / Victoria Aarons -- Starhawk : dreaming a post-feminist, post-Jewish world / Irene C. Goldman-Price.