TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohen,Shaye J.D.
TI  - Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised? Gender and Covenant In Judaism: Gender and Covenant in Judaism
SN  - 9780520920491
AV  - 2004030699 
U1  - 296.4 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Berkerley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Berit milah -- History
KW  - Circumcision -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
KW  - Jews -- Identity
KW  - Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism
KW  - Women in rabbinical literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Part One. Jewish Circumcision and Christian Polemics -- 1. A Canonical History of Jewish Circumcision -- 2. Were Jewish Women Ever Circumcised? -- 3. Christian Questions, Christian Responses -- 4. From Reticence to Polemic -- Part Two. Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised? Four Responses -- 5. The Celebration of Manhood -- 6. The Reduction of Lust and the Unmanning of Men -- 7. True Faith and the Exemption of Women -- 8. The Celebration of Womanhood -- Conclusion: Challenges to the Circumcision of Jewish Men -- Notes -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Premodern Sources
N2  - Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? This improbable question, first advanced by anti-Jewish Christian polemicists, is the point of departure for this wide-ranging exploration of gender and Jewishness in Jewish thought. With a lively command of a wide range of Jewish sources--from the Bible and the Talmud to the legal and philosophical writings of the Middle Ages to Enlightenment thinkers and modern scholars--Shaye J. D. Cohen considers the varied responses to this provocative question and in the process provides the fullest cultural history of Jewish circumcision available
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