Fertility and Jewish law [electronic resource] : feminist perspectives on orthodox responsa literature / Ronit Irshai ; translated by Joel A. Linsider.

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Irshai, Ronit

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TextLanguage: English Original language: Hebrew Series: HBI series on Jewish women | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, c2012. 2015)Edition: 1st. edDescription: 1 online resource (328 p.)ISBN:

9781611682410
161168241X

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Electronic books.

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296.3/662 23

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BM538.C68 I78 2012

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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.

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