Fertility and Jewish Law: Feminist Perspectives on Orthodox Responsa Literature by Ronit Irshai
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1611682398, 1611682401 | 376 pages | PDF | 6 MB
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1611682398, 1611682401 | 376 pages | PDF | 6 MB
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.