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,...

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