Beyond Rabbi Hiyya's Wife: Women's Voices in Jewish Bioethics

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1991

Publication Title

Second Opinion

Keywords

halakha, women, bioethics

Abstract

Although women are represented throughout halakha as actors, as questioners, even occasionally as disputants, there is one role from which they have been thoroughly excluded: scholars and interpreters of halakha. Despite their exclusion from the study of halakha, however, glimmers of women's influence are pushing through. And even in bioethics there has been a recent movement for change among feminist but traditional women scholars, who have begun to speak to such issues as abortion and contraception.

Volume

16

This document is currently not available here.

Share

COinS