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.
Abstract
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).
- HRAF PubDate
- 2005
- Region
- Middle East
- Sub Region
- Middle East
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Sociologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2004
- Field Date
- 1994-1996
- Coverage Date
- 1990s
- Coverage Place
- Israel
- Notes
- Susan Martha Kahn
- Surrogacy (surrogate motherhood) was indexed for Conception (842)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-222) and index
- LCCN
- 00030856
- LCSH
- Israelis