Reproducing Jews - A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel

"Susan Kahn has given us a first class example of how contemporary ethnography can illuminate the cultural dimensions of the brave new world of new reproductive technologies. "Reproducing Jews" offers a very different way of conceiving of the relationship between technological change and social life. Sophisticated and well-written, it will be welcomed not only by scholars in a number of fields--anthropology, sociology, feminist studies, Jewish studies, medical anthropology, bioethics--but by those who are curious as to how science, religion, and the desire for children intersect within a particular context."--Faye Ginsburg, New York University

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

1 "The time arrived but the father didn't": A New Continuum of Israeli Conception 9

2 Not Mamzers: The Legislation of Reproduction and the "Issue" of Unmarried Women 64

3 Jewish and Gentile Sperm: Rabbinic Discourse on Sperm and Paternal Relatedness 87

4 Eggs and Wombs: The Origins of jewishness 112

5 Multiple Mothers: Surrogacy and the Location of Maternity 140

6 Consequences for Kinship 159

Conclusion: Reproducing Jews and Beyond 172

Appendixes 176

Notes 197

Bibliography 217

Index 223

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Susan Martha Kahn is Associate Director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Kahn, Susan Martha Kahn, Susan Marthakahn
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 19.10.2000
• EAN: 9780822326014
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2601-4
• Seiten: 240
• Abmessung: 160 mm x 237 mm x 25 mm
• Gewicht: 572 g
• Serien: Body, Commodity, Text; Body, Commodity, Text: Studies; Body, Commodity, Text; Body, Commodity, Text: Studies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Judentum; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; Anthropologie, Judentum, Israel