Falling in love with a [sperm] warrior: conscripting women’s wombs to the dissemination of a religio-political ideology.
This article focuses on the screening and marketing of sperm in Israel as a mechanism for enlisting women’s wombs to political goals. The background for the analysis is the recent rise in demand for sperm from combat soldiers during the war between Israel and Hamas. The data-set for the project is c...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Gender Studies Vol. 26; no. 6; pp. 649 - 662 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2017
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