This book is the definitive critical analysis of the Jewish feminist theological project in the United States, its principal theologians and its foundational, embryonic, and more elaborated sacral discursive. The monograph critically examines each of the diverse theologians, their varied perspectives, and individual contributions, and asks will a prescriptive Jewish feminist theology ever be a reality?

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Contents (page 5) Preface (page 9) Acknowledgments (page 17) Introduction: The Historical Jewish Woman in the Biblical and Rabbinic Traditions (page 19) 1 Second-Wave Jewish Feminism in America, 1971-1991: An Overview (page 37) 2 Is The Right Question Theological? (page 69)

Jewish Theology from Rabbinic Times to the Twentieth-Century (page 70)
Cynthia Ozick: The ?Right QuestionZ is not Theological (page 80)
Judith Plaskow: ?The Right Question is TheologicalZ (page 83)
Conclusion: Plaskow's Rejection of Hierarchical Otherness (page 100) 3 Liturgist-Theologies of the Second-Wave (page 105)
Naomi Janowitz and Maggie Wenig: Experimenting With God-Language (page 109)
Marcia Falk: Addressing God in Neuter Language (page 112)
Rebecca Alpert: Jewish Theology from a Lesbian Perspective (page 120)
Shekhinah: the Feminine Attribute of Presence (page 127)
Lynn Gottlieb: Imaging the Divine as God-She (page 136)
Rachel Adler: The Necessity of God as Other (page 144)
Conclusion: It's Feminist, but is it Theology? (page 152) 4 ?There are Many Thoughts in the Human HeartZ: God in Multiplicity (page 155)
Carol Christ: Story Theology (page 156)
Rita Gross: The Necessity of Anthropomorphisms (page 166)
Ellen Umansky: Jewish Feminist Theology as Responsive (page 171)
Jewish Feminism and the Goddess (page 175)
Feminist Reengagement With the Tradition (page 183)
Tamar Ross: Cumulative Revelation (page 188)
Rosemary Radford Ruether: Theology as Subjective Experience (page 195)
Feminist Midrash (page 204)
Conclusion: Plurality and the Feminist Loss of God (page 211) 5 The Abandonment of the Jewish Theological Tradition and its Eschatological Premises (page 217)
The Initial Challenge (page 221)
1. Plurality (page 226)
1. Eschatology (page 233)
1. Supernaturalism (page 238)
1. Authenticity (page 241)
1. Definition (page 247)
Conclusion: Jewish Feminist Theology, the First Forty Years (page 249) Conclusion: Beyond the Second Wave and the ?FutureZ of Jewish Feminist Theology (page 253) Glossary (page 265) Bibliography (page 275) Index (page 301)