Fertility and Jewish law
Subtitle: feminist perspectives on orthodox responsa literature
By: Ronit Irshai ; translated by Joel A. Linsider
Contributors: Linsider, Joel A.
Edition: 1st. ed.
Series: HBI series on Jewish women
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Waltham, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781611682397; 9781611682403; 9781611682410
Subjects: Jewish law; Conception; Judaism; Abortion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: epistemology, jurisprudence, and halakhah: a feminist critique; title: Pt. I. Sex without procreation; title: Chapt. 1. "Be fruitful and multiply"; title: Chapt. 2. Birth control and family planning; title: Chapt. 3. Halakhic rulings on abortion: a historical survey from the rabbinic to the modern period; title: Chapt. 4. Abortion in contemporary halakhic rulings; title: Pt. II. Procreation without sex; title: Chapt. 5. Artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, and surrogacy in liberal and radical feminist approaches; title: Chapt. 6.  Artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, and surrogacy: halakhic analysis; title: Afterword: the gender project in the philosophy of halakhah as an exercise in criticism.