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Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel »

Authors: Susan Martha Kahn, Arjun Appadurai (Editor), Judith Farquhar
ISBN-13: 9780822325987, ISBN-10: 0822325985
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Date Published: January 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Susan Martha Kahn

Susan Martha Kahn is Associate Director at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University.

Book Synopsis

Explores the debates about new reproductive technologies in Israel and how they fit with Orthodox Jewish laws concerning parentage and Jewish identity.

	Acknowledgments
	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