Author | : Ronit Irshai |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 161168241X |
A comprehensive comparative study of Jewish law on contemporary reproductive issues from a gender perspective
Author | : Ronit Irshai |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 161168241X |
A comprehensive comparative study of Jewish law on contemporary reproductive issues from a gender perspective
Author | : Yechiel Michael Barilan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1107024668 |
Presents the discourse in Jewish law and rabbinic literature on bioethical issues, highlighting practical problems in their socio-historical contexts.
Author | : Ronit Irshai |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1611682401 |
A comprehensive comparative study of Jewish law on contemporary reproductive issues from a gender perspective
Author | : Susan Martha Kahn |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9780822325987 |
Explores the debates about new reproductive technologies in Israel and how they fit with Orthodox Jewish laws concerning parentage and Jewish identity.
Author | : Sandy Falk |
Publisher | : Jewish Lights Publishing |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 1580231780 |
In 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 | : Rahel Wasserfall |
Publisher | : Brandeis University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2015-05-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1611688701 |
The term Niddah means separation. During her menstrual flow and for several days thereafter, a Jewish woman is considered Niddah -- separate from her husband and unable to practice the sacred rituals of Judaism. Purification in a miqveh (a ritual bath) following her period restores full status as a wife and member of the Jewish community. In the contemporary world, debates about Niddah focus less on the literal exclusion of menstruating women from the synagogue, instead emphasizing relations between husband and wife and the general role of Jewish women in Judaism. Although this has been the law since ancient times, the meaning and practice of Niddah has been widely contested. Women and Water explores how these purity rituals have affected Jewish women across time and place, and shows how their own interpretation of Niddah often conflicted with rabbinic views. These essays also speak to contemporary feminist issues such as shaping women's identity, power relations between women and men, and the role of women in the sacred.
Author | : Sylvia Barack Fishman |
Publisher | : Brandeis University Press |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2015-11-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1611688612 |
The 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 |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2018-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110841950X |
A 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 |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0253050030 |
Conceiving 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.