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Fertility and Jewish law [electronic resource]

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A comprehensive comparative study of Jewish law on contemporary reproductive issues from a gender perspective

Title Fertility and Jewish law [electronic resource] : feminist perspectives on orthodox responsa literature / Ronit Irshai
translated by Joel A. Linsider.
Edition 1st. ed.
Publisher Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press
Creation Date c2012
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content 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.
Series HBI series on Jewish women
Extent 1 online resource (375 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010707004205171
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