Susan Martha Kahn

Reproducing Jews

A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the debates about reproductive technologies in Israel and how they fit with Orthodox Jewish laws concerning parentage and Jewish identity.

Produktdetails

• Body, Commodity, Text
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9780822325987
• ISBN-10: 0822325985
• Artikelnr.: 20993686

Autorenporträt

Susan Martha Kahn

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1 "The time arrived but the father didn't": A New Continuum of Israeli
Conception 9
2 Not Mamzers: The Legislation of Reproduction and the "Issue" of Unmarried
Women 64
3 Jewish and Gentile Sperm: Rabbinic Discourse on Sperm and Paternal
Relatedness 87
4 Eggs and Wombs: The Origins of jewishness 112
5 Multiple Mothers: Surrogacy and the Location of Maternity 140
6 Consequences for Kinship 159
Conclusion: Reproducing Jews and Beyond 172
Appendixes 176
Notes 197
Bibliography 217
Index 223