Reproducing Jews by Susan Martha Kahn
Explores the debates about reproductive technologies in Israel and how they fit with Orthodox Jewish laws concerning parentage and Jewish identity.
“This is a deeply compelling and timely book situating Israeli debates about the use of reproductive technology within the context of kinship theory”—Sarah Franklin, author of Embodied Progress: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception
"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
"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
Susan Martha Kahn is Associate Director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard Law School.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822325987 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822325985 |
| Title | Reproducing Jews |
| Author | Susan Martha Kahn |
| Series | Body Commodity Text |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 2000-10-19 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Prizes | Winner of National Jewish Book Award (Women's Studies) 2000 |
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