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More Nice Jewish Girls: Review of <Em>Beyond the Pale</Em> By DePauw University Scholarly and Creative Work from DePauw University English Faculty publications English 1-1998 More Nice Jewish Girls: Review of Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon and The Escape Artist by Judith Katz. Meryl Altman DePauw University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.depauw.edu/eng_facpubs Part of the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons Recommended Citation Altman, Meryl. "More Nice Jewish Girls." Rev. of Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon and The Escape Artist by Judith Katz. The Women's Review of Books 15.4 (1998): 7-8. This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the English at Scholarly and Creative Work from DePauw University. It has been accepted for inclusion in English Faculty publications by an authorized administrator of Scholarly and Creative Work from DePauw University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. of Joan Rivers, or Jane Fonda's enlarged breasts. Yet it is ordinarypeople, mostly female, paying cash, who keep cosmetic surgeons busy. As expensive as it is, only More nice Jewish giris 30 percentof patientscome from families by MerylAltman earning under $25,000, and another 35 percent earn between $25,000 and Beyond the Pale, by ElanaDykewomon. Vancouver,BC: Press Gang Publishers,1997, $50,000. 403 pp., $15.95 paper. These statistics supportHaiken's con- The Escape Artist, by JudithKatz. Ithaca,NY: FirebrandBooks, 1997, 283 pp., $12.95 clusion that cosmetic surgeryhas been de- paper. mocratized. What is also apparentis that this 65 percent of barely middle-income O F THE MANY SPIRITS workingtheir cosmetic surgery consumers are credu- wayout in lesbianfiction of thelast lous, receptive to popularmedia messages few decades, let me name two extolling the newest, most painless surgi- whichmay appearto be opposite:on the cal techniquesand vulnerableto the prom- one hand,a pulltoward real-life history, a ises inherent in physical transformation. driveto namespecific, often ethnic, expe- To attractlove, obtaina betterjob,to move rience,to touchthe groundwhere women ahead in America, Haiken believes "the have walked, whetherin strengthor in surgicalsolution has allowed us to hold on weakness;on the other hand, a utopian to an idealized self-image:...we are real- movementtoward imaginarycommuni- ists, pragmatists...benton creatingand rec- ties, betterworlds, which often involves reatingourselves in the most modernof all fantasyscripts or non-realiststyles. Lesbi- possible ways." ansare rooted (we werethere, we arehere, Plastic surgeon Jacob SarnoffWsvision Haiken definitely has an opinion of her thisis whowe are).Lesbians float free (we of total transformation, 1936. From Ve- own about all of this. She is disappointed could be anyone, we could be every- nus Envy. that women, especially, turncultural poli- where). tics inward, abandoningcollective action Apparentlyopposite, but often we fmd futuresfor thou- making brighter for self-improvement: these two impulsestogether: in Virginia sands of girls and women. The ma- Woolf'sOrlando; in the odd tendencyof In the 1970s, women insisted that the tronwith too many crows feet science fiction futuresto resembleearth personalis political; they defmed ap- aroundthe eyes will have new hope pasts;in the ways we thinkabout Sappho. Judith Katz. and beauty as social issues and faith because of plastic surgery pearance In Jeanette_Winterson,though she has re- veterans. (p. 137) ratherthan individualproblems. A on wounded centlyshown a distressingtendency to let imaginedthere. Both are careful,responsi- decade later...popularconceptions of middle-aged go of the readableground entirely in reach- ble, educational presentations of Jewish Aging-in middle-class, feminism began to reflect the same of all these ing forthe postmodern sky. Inthe "biomy- history-Katz lists her sources, Dykewo- women-became the target emphasis on individualachievement unoccu- thography"of Zami. And in these two mon providesa Yiddish andyet surgeons apparently otherwise and fulfillmentthat swept through glossaryr writercalled cos- books,both of whichmarry a concernfor also have magical, spiritual,legendary as- pied. One contemporary the largerculture. (p. 275) metic surgerythe quintessentialproduct of detailedhistorical memory with a commit- pects. And both gave me lots to think postwarprosperity. Feminism, then, hasn't at all deflated mentto women's,to Jewishwomen's, to about. the desire to look better(or betterthan you lesbian,possibility. Both are gripping and Both writersare able to make a familiar T nHAT THEREIS NO SELF-IMAGEcreated thinkyou look). Haikenmight well recog- enjoyable,the kind of booksyou pick up topos of Jewish fiction and life-the mas- outside a social context is probably nize that depoliticized feminism was cre- for a minuteand suddenlyit's hourslater sacre in which the parentsare killed-new the most importantlesson the reader ated by the many incrediblyinsulting and and you forgot to have dinner,so fully and newly horrible.As it happens to new learns, though not for the first time, from silly women's magazinesshe has mined so have you entered the emotionalworld characterswe have not met before, we re- VenusEnvy. To paraphraseone surgeon,the successfully to bolsterher thesis-that the way we thinkwe look is reasonenough to American.movement toward individual- want to look different.The nut of Haiken's ism has resulted in a conformity to stan- historicalanalysis is thatthe culturewe live dardsof beautythat are as impermanentas the next consumerrage. Fashion prevails t..... .... .:.:... in shapes those thoughts, and her re- . .... ... search-documented in nearly forty pages even in flesh: large breastswere needed to of notes so intriguingthat they are worth fill out the bodices of 1940s and 50s readingin theirown right-is most compel- dresses,the pertupturned nose job of those ling when she examines cosmetic surgeiy decades has been replaced by the (politi- * Possessions motivatedby race,ethnicity anid aging. cally correct)straight, assertive nose. Julia Kristeva ManyJews, especially after World War To appearunremarkable is paradoxical Translatedby BarbaraBray Two,sought rhinoplasty (nose job), either in a culturewhere individualism is a fetish. InJulia Kristeva's second novel-a sequel to The to avoid the assumptionsand prejudices Yet who woulddeny someone the right to OldMan and the Wolves-StephanieDelacour returnsto SantaVarvara to solvea murdermystery. they felt an obviousSemitic nose would "civilinattention" by correctinga defector Butas the truthunfolds, so do new questionsand attract, or, refiecting their own self- featurethat attracts curious stares? Can we hiddenlayers of meaningthat resonatethroughout loathing,to confoundstereotypes. These also understandthe wish to lift an aging Kristeva'swritings: mourning and melancholia;the whichnon-Jews face to reflectmid-life vitality?Are we powersof horror;psychoanalysis; and the complex NOWIN PAPERBACK arethe samereasons for identityof a womanwho is at once a motherand soughtto fix theirlarge noses and, fifty sympatheticwhen Jews and African an individualcapable of sexualpassion. >4EW New yearsearlier, people with congenitalsad- Americansundergo rhinoplasty, or Asians 256 pages * $27.50, cloth L ~~~Matladies dle-noses sought repair, lest their col- seek eye surgery? SOLof the a symptom The cultureof self was not createdby lapsedbridge be mistakenfor BodyTalk Soul of advancedsyphilis. cosmeticsurgeons; the altering of faceand PhilosophicalReflections on Sex and Gender Julia Kristeva An African Americanwoman' s re- body is, if anything,a shortcutto yearsof Jacqueline N. Zita JULAKRI$TEVA Translated by sponse to a friend'saccusation that she psychotherapy.There's nothing so alarm- JacquelineZita continues the discourseon gender Ross Guberman and sexualidentity that she began in her provoca- was tryingto "look"Caucasian with her ing hereto sendus to the barricades.For "Thesedays, who stillhas a soul? asksJulia tive article,"TheMale Lesbian and the Postmodern Kristevain this psychoanalyticexploration. surgically narrowed nose-"Why everyfeminist who would like to see posi- Body.'This collection of essays,which includes a Kristevareveals a new kindof patientin an age couldn'tyou feel that1 wanted my noseto tivemedia images of agingwomen, there' s revisedversion of thatarticle, addresses such issues of politicalupheaval, mass-mediated culture, as race,gender, and sexuality,and explores the body be like a sisterwhose nose was straighter anotherpraising cosmetic surgery as anact and the overhaulof familialand sexualmores. as a physical,psychological, and culturalconstruct. than mine?"captures the convoluted of self-esteem,an echo of the surgeons 242 p~e * S16.50 296 pages * $16.50, paper European P ~cn A Serks In Social Thoughtand ogy of stereotyping by who equatedvanity with mental weil- Between Men ~ Between Women:Lesbian and Gay Studies politic s andpsychol Cultwal Critidsm,Lowence a rma, Editor the observerand the observed.Were there being. LillianFaderman and LarryGross, Editors "overlarge" noses in a Europeanshtetl? VenusEnvy is a Ph.D.thesis in search EDINBURGHUNIVERSITY PRESS Arethere noses too fiatin Africa?Eyes too of a readershipbeyond an academic audi- WritingWomen in Modern China #> slantedin Thailand,or breaststoo smallin ence, but despite that aspiration,it is AnAnthology of Women'sLiterature FeministDestinations Vietnam(that is, beforeAmerican military most likely to appeal to academics in fromthe EarlyTwentieth Century and FurtberEssays
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