TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gabler,Neal
TI  - Barbra Streisand: redefining beauty, femininity, and power 
SN  - 9780300210910
AV  - ML 420 G115b 2016
U1  - 791 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Streisand, Barbra.
KW  - Streisand, Barbra
KW  - Singers
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Motion picture actors and actresses
KW  - fast
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
KW  - MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Barbra Streisand has been called the "most successful ... talented performer of her generation" by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is "one of the natural wonders of the age." Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment-from a popular vocalist to a first-rank Broadway star in Funny Girl to an Oscar-winning actress to a producer and director. But she has also become a cultural icon who has transcended show business. To achieve her success, Brooklyn-born Streisand had to overcome tremendous odds, not the least of which was her Jewishness. Dismissed, insulted, even reviled when she embarked on a show business career for acting too Jewish and looking too Jewish, she brilliantly converted her Jewishness into a metaphor for outsiderness that would eventually make her the avenger for anyone who felt marginalized and powerless. Neal Gabler examines Streisand's life and career through this prism of otherness-a Jew in a gentile world, a self-proclaimed homely girl in a world of glamour, a kooky girl in a world of convention-and shows how central it was to Streisand's triumph as one of the voices of her age
ER  -