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Fertility and Jewish law

Irshai, Ronit.

Fertility and Jewish law feminist perspectives on orthodox responsa literature / [electronic resource] : Ronit Irshai ; translated by Joel A. Linsider. - 1st. ed. - Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (328 p.) - HBI series on Jewish women . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9781611682410 161168241X


Jewish law.
Abortion--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Conception--Religious aspects--Judaism.


Electronic books.

BM538.C68 / I78 2012

296.3/662