'Conceiving God's Children': Toward a Flexible Model of Reproductive Decision-Making
| Autor: | Lea Taragin-Zeller |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Male Health (social science) Reproduction (economics) Judaism media_common.quotation_subject Decision Making Illusion Resistance (psychoanalysis) Birth control 03 medical and health sciences Ethnography Humans 0601 history and archaeology Reproductive decision Sociology Israel media_common 060101 anthropology 030505 public health Anthropology Medical Reproduction 06 humanities and the arts Contraception Family planning Anthropology Female 0305 other medical science Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Medical anthropology. 38(4) |
| ISSN: | 1545-5882 |
| Popis: | Drawing on an ethnographic study of reproduction in Israel, in this article I demonstrate how Orthodox Jews delineate borders between the godly and the human in their daily reproductive practices. Exploring the multiple ways access to technology affects religious belief and observance, I describe three approaches to marital birth control, two of which are antithetical: steadfast resistance to and general acceptance of "calculated family planning." Seeking a middle road, the third model, "flexible decision-making," reveals how couples push off and welcome pregnancies simultaneously. Unravelling the illusion of a binary model of planned/unplanned parenthood, I call for nuanced models of reproductive decision-making. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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