TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lea Taragin-Zeller
TI  - The State of Desire: Religion and Reproductive Politics in the Promised Land
SN  - 9781479817368
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Sex
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Ultra-Orthodox Jews
KW  - Israel
KW  - Sexual behavior
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Contraception
KW  - Sexual ethics
KW  - Jewish ethics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cracks -- Repro-Theologies in the Promised Land -- Creating an Ethical Language -- Reorienting Decision-Making -- Ending
N2  - "How does state policy shape our most intimate desires? This groundbreaking anthropological approach to the study of desire shows how Orthodox desires and their discontents are reshaped at the intersection of religion, reproduction and politics, highlighting how ethical choreographies between personal desire and the state emerge even in the most traditional settings"--
ER  -