...Inas Abdelwahed; Ruba Abla; Rima Afifi Copyright © 2018 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2018 Representations of sexual and reproductive health in mass media offer one indicator of women’s relative position and value as women in a given society (Bronstein 2005 ). Media...

... SARAH S. WILLEN  55 BIRTHING “INVISIBLE” CHILDREN: STATE POWER, NGO ACTIVISM, AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AMONG “ILLEGAL MIGRANT” WORKERS IN TEL AVIV, ISRAEL SARAH S. WILLEN...

... fatwa websites discuss this reproductive health technology. During the study period of 2016–17, English-language sites were more likely to rule that EC was not religiously acceptable, whereas no Arabic-language online fatwas declared the technology forbidden to Muslims. In contrast, Arabic questions...

... implicated in the trials and tribulations of infertility treatment—a form of reproductive intervention that has been inaccurately “naturalized” by Western feminist scholars as an exclusively female domain and burden. Varicocelectomy is not only an important issue in male reproductive health...

... of reproductive practices and female professionalism, they viewed local health policies and institutions through the prisms of modern obstetrics and Chinese gender rhetoric and ultimately bolstered their professional status at home in China. The article also suggests that while the ob-gyns were not attached...

... in Occupied Palestine are restrictive. A country assessment on sexual and reproductive health and rights identified six priority issues for the Palestinian government to invest in at the levels of policy and strategy, including access to safe abortion services, postabortion care, and contraceptive information...

.... Inhorn certainly paves the way for future scholarship on reproductive health care among refugees in America. Given the extent to which women remain the focus of research on reproductive health matters, as well as the ethnographies that consider gender as a dimension of life in the Middle East and its...

... and siblings when they became pregnant. Disproportionate numbers of Moroccan women become unwed mothers due to Morocco’s restriction of sexual and reproductive health education and services to married women (Feather 2020b ). Some of these women became “single” mothers due to the Moroccan state’s evolving...

... bodies, reproductive health, families, and the social body. These concerns were reflected in medical advice literature that relied on rhetorical and prevention strategies that varied depending on the physician and on whether the target audience was rural or urban men. The final section focuses...

... became the most circulated one. Frameworks such as “rights,” “choice,” and “autonomy” have long occupied a contested space among feminist activists in Turkey and elsewhere fighting for access to safe and affordable reproductive health services. The global struggle to promote women’s reproductive...

... private IVF centers in northern Tehran, as well as fi ve government-funded Health and Treatment Cen- ters (HTCs)4 catering to the reproductive health needs of poor women in eastern and northern metropolitan Tehran.5 If we had restricted our recruitment to the IVF clinic alone, we would...

..., and pressure on women to marry persists. A recent study by DeJong et al. (2005) review- ing the sexual and reproductive health situation of young people in the Arab countries and Iran emphasises that marriage remains central to any discussion in the region of the sexual and reproductive health of young...

... in Middle Eastern gender and health issues, Dr. Inhorn has conducted Fulbright and National Science Foundation– funded research on the social impact of infertility, assisted reproductive technologies, and fertility tourism in Egypt, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, and Arab America over...

...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...

.... BOOK REVIEWS  109 In addition, the list of topics includes the personal, such as courtship, love, and mental health. It is rare to fi nd a source that informs on both reproduction and love or that gives some thought to courtship as well as marriage. It is also reassuring to fi nd...

... are otherwise routinely discriminated against in crucial life domains. More generally, the study illustrates how advanced fertility treatments, in their global spread, serve to entrench ideas of reproductive normalcy, individuality, and citizenship. Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli is a health sociologist...

... with regard to access to reproductive health services. For example, even though a planned proposal for legal limitations on abortion rights was retracted after successful feminist mobilization, there are ongoing practical limitations to access to abortion in public hospitals (Tahaoğlu 2015 ). It is well...

..., modeled opportunities and changes brought about by imperialism from codes of hygiene, biomedicine, and reproductive health. In so doing, she makes an important contribution to the history of postcolonial Middle East and North Africa, gender studies, fashion, photography, and visual culture. ...

... for reproductive health programs fell from 726 million NOK in 2015 to 180 million NOK (NORAD 2017a ). From 2015 to 2016 government funding for smaller Norwegian NGO health projects was also reduced by 190 million NOK, while support to the Gates Foundation’s Global Alliance for Vaccination Initiative (GAVI...

... 2006 ; Stoler 2002 ). The primary domains of this (political) socialization range from regulations related to marriage, childbearing and child rearing, and reproductive health and sexual life to assumptions and expectations about gender identity and its related behaviors and embodiments...