TY  - MANSCPT
AU  - Cohen,Shaye J.D.
TI  - Why aren't Jewish women circumcised?: gender and covenant in Judaism 
SN  - 0520212509 (hbk) :
AV  - BM705 .C65 2005
U1  - 296.4/422 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Berit milah
KW  - History
KW  - Circumcision
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Women in rabbinical literature
KW  - Rabbinical literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Jews
KW  - Identity
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-292) and indexes; Pt. I. Jewish circumcision and Christian polemics. A canonical history of Jewish circumcision -- Were Jewish women ever circumcised? -- Christian questions, Christian responses -- From reticence to polemic -- Pt. II. Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? four responses. The celebration of manhood -- The reduction of lust and the unmanning of men -- True faith and the exemption of women -- The celebration of womanhood
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip055/2004030699.html
ER  -