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Article: Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
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- The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
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- August 1, 2002
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SUSAN MARTHA KAHN, Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000, vii + 227 p.
In the age of reproductive technologies, how are kinship and childlessness imagined in Israeli culture? Susan Martha Kahn invites us to think about this question, enlisting varied perspectives on reproductive technologies from Israeli media, women patients, physicians and rabbis. Kahn has written a nuanced ethnography of the meanings and practices of technologically assisted conception in Israel. Her book focusses on the case of unmarried women to highlight instances where rabbinic notions of personhood and Jewishness are most ...