RT Article
T1 A Polyvocal Body
JF Journal of religious ethics
VO 43
IS 2
SP 244
OP 267
A1 Epstein-Levi, Rebecca
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1580188028
AB This essay aims to elucidate how multiple voices and traditions should interact with one another in the practice of ethics. First, it explores some of the major ways in which questions of bodily autonomy function in secular feminist and Jewish bioethical discourses. It then uses case studies to illuminate ways each discourse's concepts of bodily autonomy can be deeply problematic, and argues that the strengths in each discourse can serve as important correctives for the weaknesses in the other. It suggests that some formal features of rabbinic texts can serve as a model for a discourse of constant and animated mutual correction. Finally, it examines two case studies in light of this model.
K1 Judaism
K1 Autonomy
K1 Body
K1 Feminism
K1 Heteronomy
DO 10.1111/jore.12096