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Fertility and Jewish Law
Author(s): Ronit Irshai (Author)
- Publisher: Brandeis University Press
- Publication Date: 12 July 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 376 pages
- ISBN-10: 1611682398
- ISBN-13: 9781611682397
Book Description
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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About the Author
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.
