Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority Among Haredi Women - Softcover

Raucher, Michal S

 
9780253050021: Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority Among Haredi Women
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ISBN 10: 0253050022 ISBN 13: 9780253050021
Verlag: Indiana University Press, 2020

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Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women explores the ways Haredi Jewish women make decisions about their reproductive lives. Although they must contend with interference from doctors, rabbis, and the Israeli government, Haredi women find space for-and insist on-autonomy from them when they make decisions regarding the use of contraceptives, prenatal testing, fetal ultrasounds, and other reproductive practices. Drawing on their experiences of pregnancy, knowledge of cultural norms of reproduction, and theological beliefs, Raucher shows that Haredi women assert that they are in the best position to make decisions about reproduction.

Conceiving Agency puts forward a new view of Haredi women acting in ways that challenge male authority and the structural hierarchies of their conservative religious tradition. Raucher asserts that Haredi women's reproductive agency is a demonstration of women's commitment to Haredi life and culture as well as an indication of how they define religious ethics.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michal Raucher is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and affiliate faculty in Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University.

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Verlag
Indiana University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0253050022
ISBN 13 
9780253050021
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
228
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
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