38 October 31, 1915
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Esther Broner's 'Her mothers': Meaning of Women's Liberation
Detroiter Esther Masser- easy book to read. Central
man Broner's new book, character Beatrice Palmer
"Her Mothers," published travels near and far, over
by Holt, Rhinehart and land, through time, space,
Winston, is on the surface and personalities both his-
the story of a woman who is torical and imaginary.
searching for her daughter
Detroiters will recognize
and husband. The central
many
names and faces in
character is actually search-
ing for herself, and is a the volume, with the open-
representation of the activ- ing page showing a page of
ist woman of today search- photographs from the 1944
ing for her identity, individ- Central High School year-
book.
ualism or self.
Beatrice Palmer travels
"Her Mothers" is not an
through the pages of that
yearbook, through the East,
I FACIAL HAIR) Israel, childhood, dreams
ERMANENTLY and reality. Using charac-
ters both fictional and real,
REMOVED
Mrs. Broner weaves Bea-
Eyebrows Neckhne
legs
trice Palmer through life.
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Esther Broner will be the
concluding speaker of the
week-long 24th annual Jew-
ish Book Fair at the Jewish
Community Center Nov.
8-16. She will lecture on
"The Stolen Legacy — The
Interruption of Ritual Be-
tween Mother and Daugh-
ter" at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16 in
the Aaron DeRoy Theater.
Wayne State University
announced this week that
Mrs. Broner has been
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Morris Friedman will
speak on "The Jewish Role
in the Civil War — Chap-
laincy Controversy." Re-
freshments will be served,
and admission is free.
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"Mother, I'm pregnant
with a baby girl."
"What is she doing?"
"She is singing."
"Why is she singing?"
"Because she's unafraid."
ESTHER BRONER
"Then you're pregnant
with me."
These carefully plotted
lines, interspersed on al-
most every page with the
rest of the text, ultimately
lead the reader to a con-
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eluding stanza. The devel-
opment of a person from
the woman's role as now
perceived to a new role
envisioned by the women's
liberation movement lays
between the opening lines
above and Esther Broner's
closing stanza:
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nor is there a true story-
line.
Rather, the reader is
given a commentary on life
as told by a woman of today
as she matures in today's
world.
"Her Mothers" opening
paragraphs are a story-
within-a-story which is re-
peated with a new lesson, a
new glimpse at woman's
life, on nearly every page:
A.
"I'm pregnant, mother."
"Have a girl."
"Why?"
"A girl should have a
girl."
B.
"Mother, I'm pregnant
with a girl."
"How old is she?"
"Seventeen years old."
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Margaret Fuller."' The
WSU Theater will present
the premier performance
next summer.
Mrs. Broner wrote the
play while she and her hus-
band were teaching at Haifa
University. Margaret
Fuller, a friend of Emerson
and Thoreau, was one of the
leading women scholars of
the 19th Century, and early
champion of women's rights
and a central character in
Mrs. Broner's book, "Her
Mothers." The play deals
with the life of Miss Fuller
as seen through the eyes
and experiences of 12 Israeli
women.
Dancer Refuses
to Accept Honor
at Detroit A.C.
The location of an affair
honoring dancer Martha
Graham which was sched-
uled to be held last Friday
at the Detroit Athletic Club
was changed to the Detroit
Music Hall because the
world-renowned dancer re-
fused to attend at a club
whose "policies of discrimi-
nation" are "against my sa-
cred beliefs."
In a telegram to officials
of the Detroit Metropolitan
Project, which organized
the affair, Miss Graham
said that she was unaware
of the Detroit Athletic
Club's discriminatory mem-
bership policies when she
accepted the original invita-
tion.
She subsequently learned
through the Anti-Defama-
tion League of Bnai Brith
that the club bars Jews
from membership and has
one black recently admitted.
In addition, women are
denied entry to the club
through the front door and
instead must go in through
a side entrance.
Miss Graham will be hon-
ored Nov. 13 at the Hotel
Pierre by the Women's Divi-
sion of the ADL Appeal
with Lt. Gov. Mary Anne
Krupsak of New York and
Gwen Verdon as 1975
Women of Achievement.
At the end of the book Es-
ther Broner acknowledges
"her mothers" who she may
not have mentioned in the
book, including Detroiters
Beatrice Masserman, Agnes
Bruenton, Evelyn Scheyer,
Dr. Hansi Mark, Hannah
Pokempner,
Elizabeth
Weiss,
Harriet Berg,
Eleanor Torrey West, An-
nette Freedman, Malverne
Reisman, Ruth Kroll, June
Snow, Joyce Weckstein, Ev-
elyn Orbach and Prof. Jane
Eberwein.
Others Detroiters include
Marylou Zieve, Karen Klein,
Sue Brose, Julie Jensen,
Lois Clamage, Aliza Mas-
serman, Sari Broner, Jill
Brose and Nahama Broner.
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