Ivry, Tsipy; Teman, Elly; Frumkin, Ayala - In: Social Science & Medicine 72 (2011) 9, pp. 1527-1533
Through narrative interviews with 20 pregnant ultra-orthodox [Haredi] Jewish women in Israel conducted between 2007 and 2009, we examine the implications for such women of prenatal testing, and of pregnancy as a gendered route of piety. We found that pregnancy signified both a divine mission and...