Following a neo-Malthusian rationality, the Tunisian independent state has promoted
biomedical contraception and legalized abortion to lower the national fertility rate. Whereas …

After the revolution of 2011, the electoral victory of the Islamist party 'Ennahdha'allowed
previously silenced religious and conservative ideas about women's right to abortion to be …

In this article, we explore the effects that Tunisia's post-revolutionary democratization
process has had on the right to abortion, drawing on ethnographic material, interviews, and …

The emergence of Islamist movements and religious symbolic repertoires in the aftermath of
the Tunisian revolution has elicited the political, moral, and practical contestation of women's …

This dissertation studies the relationship among assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs),
political Islam, and changing ethnic-minority status in Turkey. This project examines the …

In 2010, Tine was working on a long-term ethnographic study of prenatal screening in
Vietnam, while Ayo received funding for an ethnographic work of sperm banking in China …

Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, was born more than 40 years ago in England.
For Louise Brown's infertile mother, Lesley, in-vitro fertilization (IVF) was the 'hope …

It is generally held that assisted reproductive technology has dissociated procreation from
sexuality—just as the advent of the pill dissociated sexuality from procreation. My study will …

Introduction their seminal volume, Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of
Reproduction, anthropologists Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp (1995: 1) argue that …

In Tunisia, medication abortion has been available in government reproductive and sexual
health clinics since the early 2000s. Since its introduction, it has rapidly replaced the …