Fertility and Jewish law feminist perspectives on orthodox responsa literature /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Irshai, Ronit
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Linsider, Joel A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Hebrew
Published: Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, c2012.
Series:HBI series on Jewish women.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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.