Achieving Procreation : : Childlessness and IVF in Turkey / / Merve Demircioğlu Göknar.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Göknar, Merve Demircioğlu,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 29
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; Chapter 1 The Desire to Have a Child --; Chapter 2 Religion as Discourse and Practice --; Chapter 3 Childlessness Among Kin and Friends --; Chapter 4 Manhood Ideologies and IV F --; Chapter 5 Achievement and Procreation --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782386353; 9783110998238
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782386353?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Merve Demircioğlu Göknar.

Managing social relationships for childless couples in pro-natalist societies can be a difficult art to master, and may even become an issue of belonging for both men and women. With ethnographic research gathered from two IVF clinics and in two villages in northwestern Turkey, this book explores infertility and assisted reproductive technologies within a secular Muslim population. Göknar investigates the experience of infertility through various perspectives, such as the importance of having a child for women, the mediating role of religion, the power dynamics in same-gender relationships, and the impact of manhood ideologies on the decision for — or against — having IVF.