Primary Format: E-book | |
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ISBN: | 9781611682410 |
Published: | 06/12/2012 |
Pages: | 376 |
Size: | 6 x 9 in. |
Subject(s): | Women's Studies Jewish Studies Religion |
Fertility and Jewish Law: Feminist Perspectives on Orthodox Responsa Literature
Ronit Irshai
E-book: $35.99Overview
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.
Author Bio
RONIT IRSHAI is an assistant professor in the gender studies program at Bar Ilan University and a lecturer in the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is also a research fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.