Achieving Procreation

Childlessness and IVF in Turkey

Merve Demircioğlu Göknar (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

214 Seiten

2015
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78238-634-6 (ISBN)

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Managing social relationships for childless couples in pro-natalist societies can be a difficult art to master. With ethnographic research gathered in northwestern Turkey, this book explores infertility & assisted reproductive technologies within a secular Muslim population & how social experience leads to a decision for (or against) having an IVF.

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.

Merve Demircioğlu Göknar is a medical anthropologist who specializes in reproduction, gender and religion. Her research interests include local healing practices and Buddhism in Sri Lanka, assisted reproductive technologies and infertility in Turkey, and birth experiences of women and parenting practices in California. She is currently an independent researcher.

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 IVF

Chapter 5. Achievement and Procreation

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Reihe/Serie	Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-78238-634-3 / 1782386343
ISBN-13	978-1-78238-634-6 / 9781782386346
Zustand	Neuware