feminist perspectives on orthodox responsa literature /
Ronit Irshai ; translated by Joel A. Linsider
1st. ed
Waltham, Mass. :
Brandeis University Press,
c2012
xiii, 358 p. ;
24 cm
HBI series on Jewish women
Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-341 and index
Introduction: epistemology, jurisprudence, and halakhah: a feminist critique -- Pt. I. Sex without procreation -- Chapt. 1. "Be fruitful and multiply" -- Chapt. 2. Birth control and family planning -- Chapt. 3. Halakhic rulings on abortion: a historical survey from the rabbinic to the modern period -- Chapt. 4. Abortion in contemporary halakhic rulings -- Pt. II. Procreation without sex -- Chapt. 5. Artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, and surrogacy in liberal and radical feminist approaches -- Chapt. 6. Artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, and surrogacy: halakhic analysis -- Afterword: the gender project in the philosophy of halakhah as an exercise in criticism