Fertility and Jewish Law
Feminist Perspectives on Orthodox Responsa Literature
Distributed for Brandeis University Press
376 pages
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6 x 9
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Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments • Introduction: Epistemology, Jurisprudence, and Halakhah: A Feminist Critique • SEX WITHOUT PROCREATION • “Be Fruitful and Multiply” • Birth Control and Family Planning • Halakhic Rulings on Abortion: A Historical Survey from the Rabbinic to the Modern Period • Abortion in Contemporary Halakhic Rulings • PROCREATION WITHOUT SEX • Artificial Insemination, In Vitro Fertilization, and Surrogacy in Liberal and Radical Feminist Approaches • Artificial Insemination, In Vitro Fertilization, and Surrogacy: Halakhic Analysis • Afterword: The Gender Project in the Philosophy of Halakhah as an Exercise in Criticism • Notes • Bibliography • Index
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