Abortion pills, test tube babies, and sex toys : emerging sexual and reproductive technologies in the Middle East and North Africa / edited by L.L. Wynn and Angel M. Foster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Foster, A. M. (Angelina Marguerite), editor.

Wynn, L. L., 1971- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Birth control--Africa, North.

Birth control.

Birth control--Middle East.

Human reproductive technology--Africa, North.

Human reproductive technology.

Human reproductive technology--Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2016]

Summary:

"From Viagra to in vitro fertilization, new technologies are rapidly changing the global face of reproductive health. They are far from neutral: religious, cultural, social, and legal contexts condition their global transfer. The way a society interprets and adopts (or rejects) a new technology reveals a great deal about the relationship between bodies and the body politic. Reproductive health technologies are often particularly controversial because of their potential to reconfigure kinship relationships, sexual mores, gender roles, and the way life is conceptualized. This collection of original ethnographic research spans the region from Morocco and Tunisia to Israel and Iran and covers a wide range of technologies, including emergency contraception, medication abortion, gamete donation, hymenoplasty, erectile dysfunction, and gender transformation. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Setting the Context: Sexuality, Reproductive Health, and Medical Technologies in the Middle East and North Africa

I. Preventing and Terminating Pregnancy

1. Is There an Islamic IUD? Exploring the Acceptability of a Hormone-Releasing Intrauterine Device in Egypt

2. Introducing Emergency Contraception in Morocco: A Slow Start after a Long Journey

3. Mifepristone in Tunisia: A Model for Expanding Access to Medication Abortion

4. Navigating Barriers to Abortion Access: Misoprostol in the West Bank

II. Achieving Pregnancy and Parenthood

5. "Worse comes to worst, I have a safety net": Fertility Preservation among Young, Single, Jewish Breast Cancer Patients in Israel

6. The "ART" of Making Babies Using In Vitro Fertilization: Assisted Reproduction Technologies in the United Arab Emirates

7. Wanted Babies, Excess Fetuses: The Middle East's In Vitro Fertilization, High-Order Multiple Pregnancy, Fetal Reduction Nexus

8. Birthing Bodies, Pregnant Selves: Gestational Surrogates, Intended Mothers, and Distributed Maternity in Israel

9. C-Sections as a Nefarious Plot: The Politics of Pronatalism in Turkey

III. Engaging Sex and Sexuality

10. HPV Vaccine Uptake in Lebanon: A Vicious Cycle of Misinformation, Stigma, and Prohibitive Costs

11. Hymenoplasty in Contemporary Iran: Liminality and the Embodiment of Contested Discourses

12. "Viagra Soup": Consumer Fantasies and Masculinity in Portrayals of Erectile Dysfunction Drugs in Cairo, Egypt

13. Sex Toys and the Politics of Pleasure in Morocco

14. Narratives of Gender Transformation Practices for Transgender Women in Diyarbakir, Turkey

Conclusion: Individual, Community, Religion, State: Technology at the Intersection

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Glossary of Foreign Terms.

Bibliography

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826503893

0826503896

9780826521293

0826521290

OCLC:

951416096