Fertility and Jewish Law
Author: Ronit Irshai
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 161168241X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive comparative study of Jewish law on contemporary reproductive issues from a gender perspective
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Author: Ronit Irshai
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 161168241X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive comparative study of Jewish law on contemporary reproductive issues from a gender perspective
Author: Ronit Irshai
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1611682401
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive comparative study of Jewish law on contemporary reproductive issues from a gender perspective
Author: Susan Martha Kahn
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780822325987
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the debates about new reproductive technologies in Israel and how they fit with Orthodox Jewish laws concerning parentage and Jewish identity.
Author: Yechiel Michael Barilan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1107024668
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents the discourse in Jewish law and rabbinic literature on bioethical issues, highlighting practical problems in their socio-historical contexts.
Author: Rahel R. Wasserfall
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780874519600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvocative essays address the question of women's menstrual rituals in Jewish law, history, and culture.
Author: Sandy Falk
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1580231780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn addition to information on medical issues, this book features ancient and modern prayers and rituals for each stage of pregnancy, as well as traditional Jewish wisdom on pregnancy.
Author: Sylvia Barack Fishman
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Published: 2015-11-22
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1611688612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe concepts of gender, love, and family - as well as the personal choices regarding gender-role construction, sexual and romantic liaisons, and family formation - have become more fluid under a society-wide softening of boundaries, hierarchies, and protocols. Sylvia Barack Fishman gathers the work of social historians and legal scholars who study transformations in the intimate realms of partnering and family construction among Jews. Following a substantive introduction, the volume casts a broad net. Chapters explore the current situation in both the United States and Israel, attending to what once were considered unconventional household arrangements - including extended singlehood, cohabitating couples, single Jewish mothers, and GLBTQ families - along with the legal ramifications and religious backlash. Together, these essays demonstrate how changes in the understanding of male and female roles and expectations over the past few decades have contributed to a social revolution with profound - and paradoxical - effects on partnering, marriage, and family formation. This diverse anthology - with chapters focusing on demography, ethnography, and legal texts - will interest scholars and students in Jewish studies, women's and gender studies, Israel studies, and American Jewish history, sociology, and culture.
Author: Doris H. Gray
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-01-11
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 110841950X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wide-ranging analysis of grass-roots activism, migration, legal, political and religious changes as basis for social transformation.
Author: Michal S. Raucher
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2020-09-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0253050030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women explores the ways Haredi Jewish women make decisions about their reproductive lives. Although they must contend with interference from doctors, rabbis, and the Israeli government, Haredi women find space for—and insist on—autonomy from them when they make decisions regarding the use of contraceptives, prenatal testing, fetal ultrasounds, and other reproductive practices. Drawing on their experiences of pregnancy, knowledge of cultural norms of reproduction, and theological beliefs, Raucher shows that Haredi women assert that they are in the best position to make decisions about reproduction. Conceiving Agency puts forward a new view of Haredi women acting in ways that challenge male authority and the structural hierarchies of their conservative religious tradition. Raucher asserts that Haredi women's reproductive agency is a demonstration of women's commitment to Haredi life and culture as well as an indication of how they define religious ethics.
Author: Judith Hauptman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-04-11
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0429966202
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFully acknowledging that Judaism, as described in both the Bible and the Talmud, was patriarchal, Judith Hauptman demonstrates that the rabbis of the Talmud made significant changes in key areas of Jewish law in order to benefit women. Reading the texts with feminist sensibilities, recognizing that they were written by men and for men and that the