No. 77: The Way We Were
Proto-Jewish feminism
December 05, 2011
1973, dir. Sydney Pollack. This Barbra Streisand/Robert Redford classic gave the world “Your girl is lovely, Hubbell”—the five-word anthem of a generation of brash, curly-haired, politically active Jewish gals, scorned in favor of more demure, which is to say WASPy, women. Think it’s no longer relevant? Take it away, Carrie Bradshaw.
Alana Newhouse is the editor-in-chief of Tablet Magazine.