{"product_id":"reproducing-jews-9780822325987","title":"Reproducing Jews","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores the debates about reproductive technologies in Israel and how they fit with Orthodox Jewish laws concerning parentage and Jewish identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eEmbodied Progress: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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. \u003ci\u003eReproducing Jews\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1 \"The time arrived but the father didn't\": A New Continuum of Israeli Conception 9 \u003cbr\u003e 2 Not Mamzers: The Legislation of Reproduction and the \"Issue\" of Unmarried Women 64\u003cbr\u003e 3 Jewish and Gentile Sperm: Rabbinic Discourse on Sperm and Paternal Relatedness 87\u003cbr\u003e 4 Eggs and Wombs: The Origins of jewishness 112\u003cbr\u003e 5 Multiple Mothers: Surrogacy and the Location of Maternity 140\u003cbr\u003e 6 Consequences for Kinship 159\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Reproducing Jews and Beyond 172\u003cbr\u003e Appendixes 176\u003cbr\u003e Notes 197\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 217\u003cbr\u003e Index 223","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406026285399,"sku":"9780822325987","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822325987.jpg?v=1730494287","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reproducing-jews-9780822325987","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}