Inconceivable Iran : : To Reproduce or Not to Reproduce? / / Soraya Tremayne.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Tremayne, Soraya,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 50
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)

Celebrating the 50th volume of the landmark Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality series, this book offers a much-needed analysis of shifting reproductive policies and practices in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a society that is usually represented as either “revolutionary” or “oppressive.” Instead, Tremayne reflects on more than four decades of research arguing that changing reproductive behaviors on the part of ordinary Iranians must always be viewed against the backdrop of core cultural values and traditions, which are often reinforced, instead of radically altered, by new reproductive technologies, juridical opinions, and state policies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Modernity, Discord, Compliance -- Chapter 1 Change and “Face” in Modern Iran -- Chapter 2 Modernity and Early Marriage in Iran A View from Within -- Chapter 3 The Four Faces of Iranian Fatherhood -- Part II Population, Reproduction, Politics -- Chapter 4 “And Never the Twain Shall Meet” Reproductive Health Policies in the Islamic Republic of Iran -- Chapter 5 “As List E Karhayee Ke Bayad Anjame Midadam Khat Khord” Contemporary Reproductive Body Politic in Iran -- Chapter 6 “The Only Thing [the State Is] Good at Is Intruding in People’s Beds” Citizens as Tools of Reproduction -- Part III Kinship, Family, Gender -- Chapter 7 The “Down Side” of Gamete Donation Challenging “Happy Family” Rhetoric in Iran -- Chapter 8 Gender and Reproductive Technologies in Shia Iran -- Chapter 9 Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Making and Unmaking of Kin in Iran: Transformation or Variation on a Theme? -- Part IV Fertility, Religion, Technology -- Chapter 10 Law, Ethics, and Donor Technologies in Shia Iran -- Chapter 11 Conceiving IVF in Iran -- Chapter 12 Third-Party Gamete Donation, Anonymity, and the Conundrum of Lineage -- Conclusion -- Index