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Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel

Kahn, Susan Martha·2000·Duke University Press eBooks
DOI 10.1215/9780822378204
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There are more fertility clinics per capita in Israel than in any other country in the world and Israel has the world's highest per capita rate of in-vitro fertilization procedures. Fertility treatments are fully subsidized by Israeli national health insurance and are available to all Israelis, regardless of religion or marital status. These phenomena are not the result of unusually high rates of infertility in Israel but reflect the centrality of reproduction in Judaism and Jewish culture.In this ethnographic study of the new reproductive technologies in Israel, Susan Martha Kahn explores the cultural meanings and contemporary rabbinic responses to artificial insemination, in-vitro fertilization, egg donation, and surrogacy. Kahn draws on fieldwork with unmarried Israeli women who are using state-subsidized artificial insemination to get pregnant and on participant-observation in Israeli fertility clinics. Through close readings of traditional Jewish texts and careful analysis of Israeli public discourse, she explains how the Israeli embrace of new reproductive technologies has made Jewish beliefs about kinship startlingly literal. Kahn also reveals how a wide range of contemporary Israelis are using new reproductive technologies to realize their reproductive futures, from ultraorthodox infertile married couples to secular unmarried women.As the first scholarly account of assisted conception in Israel, this multisited ethnography will contribute to current anthropological de…

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Authors
Kahn, S. M.
Corresponding author
Kahn, Susan Martha
Venue
Duke University Press eBooks
Publisher
Duke University Press
Published
2000
DOI
10.1215/9780822378204
OpenAlex
W4248068592
Cited by
362
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0
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4.84
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book
Language
en
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closed
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  • Duke University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
  • DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Reproductive Medicine › Reproductive Health and Technologies
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Jewish Identity and Society
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
Keywords
assisted reproduction, new reproductive technologies, Judaism, in vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, oocyte donation, surrogacy, infertility, unmarried women, secular Jews, kinship studies

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