Fertility and Jewish Law: Feminist Perspectives on Orthodox Responsa Literature
Brandeis University Press, 2012
Cloth: 978-1-61168-239-7 | eISBN: 978-1-61168-241-0 | Paper: 978-1-61168-240-3
Library of Congress Classification BM538.C68I78 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 296.3662
Cloth: 978-1-61168-239-7 | eISBN: 978-1-61168-241-0 | Paper: 978-1-61168-240-3
Library of Congress Classification BM538.C68I78 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 296.3662
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
This book presents, from the perspective of feminist jurisprudence and feminist and liberal bioethics, a complete study of Jewish law (halakhah) on contemporary reproductive issues such as birth control, abortion, and assisted fertility. Irshai examines these issues to probe gender-based values that underlie the interpretations and determinations reached by modern practitioners of halakhah. Her primary goal is to tell, through common halakhic tools, a different halakhic story, one that takes account of the female narrative and its missing perspective.
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