...Ellen J. Amster Achieving Procreation: Childlessness and IVF in Turkey . Merve Demircioglu Göknar . New York : Berghahn , 2015 201 pages. isbn 9781782386346. Emergency Contraception: The Story of a Global Reproductive Health Technology . Angel M. Foster and L. L...

...L. L. Wynn; Angel M. Foster Abstract English- and Arabic-language cyberfatwas on emergency contraception (EC) illuminate current debates around sexuality in the global Muslim community. In websites with fatwas about EC, there are significant differences in the way that English- and Arabic-language...

...- and Arabic-language online fatwas about emergency contraception. They find that English fatwas are more likely than Arabic fatwas to be negative or uninformed in their public advice about this form of reproductive control technology. Further, Wynn and Foster note the comparative lack of controversy about...

.... This violence includes coercion of women seeking abortions, denial of resources and services, and infliction of harm. Even information about and access to prepregnancy emergency contraceptives are withheld. A reproductive justice approach considers reproductive rights to be part of social justice...

... in Egypt were those female reformers who had been the first to endorse it and offer contraceptives in their clinics. At stake was control over an important form of aid that affected millions of women, management of a key program in the emerging social welfare state, and a victory in development circles...

... contraceptives properly and could not be trusted to have control over their bodies. This led to the promotion of long-term methods, such as injectables and IUDs, in the early 1990s. Egyptian men, whose only forms of contraception were condoms and vasectomies, were not targeted because of cultural politics...

...- tective cover of nightfall to begin our adventure. Th is is the third time Shohreh has asked me to accompany her to purchase contraception. Aft er taking her to receive her fourth abortion in three years, I have told her that she must start using contraception. She tells me...

... in the realms of virility and fertility, which are typically conflated (Ali 1996; 2000; Lindisfarne 1994; Ouzgane 1997). According to Ouzgane, a scholar of contemporary Arabic litera- ture, virility emerges as “the essence of Arab masculinity” (3) in the novels of some of the region’s...

.... States try to control a range of reproductive issues, including the decision to exercise abstinence, the use of contraception, and childbirth methods. While these are all controversial, abortion is perhaps the most debated topic in many countries. State and civil society actors disagree about under which...

... pleasure (Haeri 1989). Within this context of ijtihad aandnd mut‘a, divergent opinions on gamete donation are beginning to emerge in the Shia Muslim world. Various Shia ulema have come to their own conclusions regarding the acceptability of gamete donation, with or without mut‘a. Some Shia...

... and explicitly gendered exploration of the multilayered conceptualizations of militarism and masculinism. Using Young’s conception, this article looks at the masculine assumptions underpinning the nationalized models propagated in the early emergence of Baʾath ideology, and at how the early formation...

... the emergency, the urgency to record as much as we could. I’m so happy that even though the situation on that Tuesday outside the TV station was very chaotic, we decided to go because Mojgan call[ed] our hotel. She and I had conversations that were mainly laughing nicely, because I don’t speak Farsi. She...

... assigned to deal with obstetric emergencies and unfortunately often had no medical records to which to refer. Often they received the pregnant woman in critical situations in which the latter was in too feeble a position to communicate her feelings and thoughts or negotiate measures being taken on her...

..., broader context. A new discourse emerged that not only paid attention to the limitations of freedom and the obstacles women faced but also took into account their desires, dreams, or life expectations. This optic concentrates on depicting how women try to survive in a male-dominated world as well as how...

... sinned surrounded by arms Which were hot and avenging and iron. . . Iran had known women poets and writers before the emergence of personalities like Farrukhzād (1935-67) and Simin Bihbihāni (b. 1927); in the interwar period, Parvin I‘tisāmi (1907-41) was widely read. However...

... ) as controlling women emerged as a key strategy to controlling communities in times of change. Furthermore, feminist debates over the relationship between citizens’ rights and women’s rights were revived (Cleaver and Wallace 1990 ; cooke 1994–95 ). While Mohanty ( 2011 ) calls for further research into the role...

..., Politician, and Guerilla: The Emergence of a New Political Imagination in Kurdistan through Women’s Bodies and Speech .” differences 30 , no. 2 : 115 – 45 . Yağmur Fatih . 2011 . “ Uludere Katliamı” (“Uludere Massacre”) . Radikal , December 11 . http://www.radikal.com.tr/turkiye/uludere...

...). At the same time, abortion and contraceptives are only partly covered by the public health care system, and sex education is evidently lacking (Birenbaum-Carmeli 2003). In contradistinction, fertility treatments—openly counted by poli- ticians as a method to increase the country’s Jewish population...

... of Algiers” (ibid., 36), supplied advice and poisons by which cunning wives dispatched their unknowing husbands (ibid., 138–39), and helped women commit infanticide to hide illicit pregnancies (ibid., 235). The qabla s’ reproductive, contraceptive, and abortive expertise was indeed so renowned that even...

...; the emergence of new opportunities and aspirations in the choice of marriage partners; changes in the marriage and divorce laws, giving women new rights; a considerable increase in the rate of divorce; and finally the inclusion and participation of women in the labour market. The extent of the change...