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Author Irshai, Ronit.

Title Fertility and Jewish law : feminist perspectives on orthodox responsa literature / Ronit Irshai ; translated by Joel A. Linsider
Edition 1st ed
Published Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource
Series HBI series on Jewish women
HBI series on Jewish women.
Contents Introduction: epistemology, jurisprudence, and halakhah: a feminist critique -- pt. I. Sex without procreation -- Chapt. 1. "Be fruitful and multiply" -- Chapt. 2. Birth control and family planning -- Chapt. 3. Halakhic rulings on abortion: a historical survey from the rabbinic to the modern period -- Chapt. 4. Abortion in contemporary halakhic rulings -- pt. II. Procreation without sex -- Chapt. 5. Artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, and surrogacy in liberal and radical feminist approaches -- Chapt. 6. Artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, and surrogacy: halakhic analysis -- Afterword: the gender project in the philosophy of halakhah as an exercise in criticism
Summary A comprehensive comparative study of Jewish law on contemporary reproductive issues from a gender perspective
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Conception -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Abortion -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Jewish law.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- Theology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Conception -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
Abortion -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
Jewish law
Feminismus
Insemination
Judentum
Jüdisches Recht
Schwangerschaftsabbruch
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Linsider, Joel A.
LC no. 2021695117
ISBN 9781611682410
161168241X