Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?Gender and Covenant in Judaism

Cohen, Shaye J. D.

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“…Jewish women were Jewish by birth, but their Jewishness was assumed to be inferior to that of Jewish men." 120,121 Thus, as David Benatar has pointed out, "half of the Jewish people lack the physical mark that is widely associated with Jews. One would have thought that egalitarians would want to rectify this oversight."…”

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Female genital mutilation and male circumcision: toward an autonomy-based ethical framework

Earp¹

2015

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Abstract:The non-therapeutic alteration of children's genitals is typically discussed in two separate ethical discourses: one for girls, in which such alteration is conventionally referred to as "female genital mutilation" (or FGM), and one for boys, in which it is conventionally referred to as "male circumcision." The former is typically regarded as objectionable or even barbaric; the latter, benign or beneficial. In this paper, however, I call into question the moral and empirical basis for such a distinction, and I argue that it is untenable. As an alternative, I propose an ethical framework for evaluating such alterations that is based upon considerations of bodily autonomy and informed consent, rather than sex or gender.

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Section: The Symbolic Meanings Of Fgamentioning

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Female genital mutilation and male circumcision: toward an autonomy-based ethical framework

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2015

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“…If the father is not available, the responsibility falls upon every single Jewish man in the community. Circumcision is not a private matter, but a male, communal matter (Aggleton, 2007;Cohen, 2005).…”

Section: Circumcision and Jewish Identitymentioning

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“…Moreover, there are congregations in which an uncircumcised man is not permitted to marry, nor is he permitted to be part of a prayer service. In short: if you do not cut off the foreskin, you are cut off from your people (Cohen, 2005). Even though there are examples of Jewish parents who have not circumcised their sons, and report that this has not implied a rejection from the community, the impact of circumcision is an inescapable fact of life that every Jew has a relationship to (Goldman, 1999).…”

Section: Circumcision and Jewish Identitymentioning

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“…Circumcision is inherently connected to male identity (Aggleton, 2007;Cohen, 2005). In Freud's Europe, the circumcised Jew was perceived as neurotic and passive, characteristics that were associated with women and interpreted as inferior, which in turn implied that Jewish men were viewed as inferior, a perception that they might have integrated in their own perception of themselves (Geller, 2007;Gilman, 1991;Salberg, 2007).…”

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Freud's Jewish identity, circumcision, and the theory of castration anxiety: problem or pride?

Punzi

2014

Mental Health, Religion & Culture

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“…La diferencia genérica aquí sería de función y no de esencia, al contrario de otras interpretaciones donde se juzga que la bendición mencionada radica en el supuesto de que la mujer no estaría hecha a imagen de Dios (cfr. ShayeCohen, 2005). 4 Existe otra interpretación de la exoneración de la mujer a toda la preceptiva, la cual sostiene que gracias a su intuición ella posee una cercanía más inmediata con lo divino (Cfr.…”

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Crítica y tensión: la figura femenina en Los judíos de las Acacias

Miro

2017

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Los judíos de las Acacias (1936), de Rebeca Mactas, presenta siete cuentos ubicados en una colonia agrícola argentina. En un diálogo tácito con Los Gauchos judíos de Gerchunoff, la autora reelabora el proceso de colonización e integración de los inmigrantes, pero ahora desde una perspectiva desencantada y privilegiando las experiencias de las mujeres. Este artículo propone, en primer lugar, analizar la representación de la figura femenina en Los judíos de las Acacias mediante el rol y los rasgos psicológicos de los personajes femeninos en la colonia, y de la mirada sobre ellos de los caracteres masculinos. En segundo lugar, se detallarán las tensiones que la autora implícita en tanto, por una parte, se critican los destinos vitales posibles de la mujer según los regímenes genéricos en el campo argentino y en la tradición judía más conservadora, y por otra parte, se persiste en la naturalización de su destino prescripto en mandatos sociales y religiosos.

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Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised?Gender and Covenant in Judaism

Cited by 75 publications

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Female genital mutilation and male circumcision: toward an autonomy-based ethical framework

Female genital mutilation and male circumcision: toward an autonomy-based ethical framework

Freud's Jewish identity, circumcision, and the theory of castration anxiety: problem or pride?

Crítica y tensión: la figura femenina en Los judíos de las Acacias

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