Fertility and Jewish law : feminist perspectives on orthodox responsa literature / / Ronit Irshai ; translated by Joel A. Linsider.
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| Superior document: | HBI series on Jewish women |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English Hebrew |
| Series: | HBI series on Jewish women.
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 358 p. |
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Table of 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.