Book
Reproducing Jews: a cultural account of assisted conception in Israel
Duke University Press • Durham • Published In 2000 • Pages: viii, 227
By: Kahn, Susan Martha.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph is a cultural account of assisted conception in Israel. In this study Kahn: (1) illustrates how rabbinic beliefs about kinship are made literal through the social uses of new reproductive technology in Israel, with a particular focus on the construction of maternity and paternity in rabbinic kinship cosmology; (2) illuminates the curious conceptual and practical overlaps between secular and religious uses of, and beliefs about, these technologies; (3) analyzes how rabbinic beliefs about kinship creates the potential for unmarried Israeli women to reproduce via reproductive technology; and (4) shows how the bodies of unmarried Jewish women are imagined as reproductive resources in legal discourse regarding the new reproductive technologies in Israel (pp. 1-2).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Life history materials
- Cultural identity and pride
- Regulation of marriage
- Celibacy
- Government regulation
- Legal norms
- Hospitals and clinics
- Bodily injuries
- Theological systems
- Purification and atonement
- Priesthood
- Conception
- Social placement
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Israelis
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Sociologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2004
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1994-1996
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1990s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Israel
- NotesAdditional notes
- Susan Martha Kahn
- Surrogacy (surrogate motherhood) was indexed for Conception (842)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-222) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 00030856
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Israelis