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Fertility and Jewish Law: Feminist Perspectives on Orthodox Responsa Literature - Irshai, Ronit
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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 ...

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Fertility and Jewish Law: Feminist Perspectives on Orthodox Responsa Literature 2012, Brandeis University Press

ISBN-13: 9781611682403

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Fertility and Jewish Law: Feminist Perspectives on Orthodox Responsa Literature 2012, Brandeis University Press

ISBN-13: 9781611682397

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