Susan Martha Kahn

Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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

Produktdetails

• Body, Commodity, Text
• Verlag: DUKE UNIV PR
• New
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780822326014
• ISBN-10: 0822326019
• Artikelnr.: 21354631

Inhaltsangabe

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