...Elly Teman The Birth of Surrogacy in Israel , Weisberg D. Kelly . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2005 . 304 pgs. $59.95 Copyright © 2006 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2006 114  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES Th e Birth...

... such as Social Science & Medicine , Sociology of Health and Illness , and Science as Culture . Copyright © 2007 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2007 DAPHNA BIRENBAUM-CARMELI  21 CONTESTED SURROGACY AND THE GENDER ORDER...

...Sibylle Lustenberger Abstract This article analyzes the place of intimacy in the encounters between Israeli gay men and Indian surrogates. While transnational surrogacy is often presented either as an act of solidarity or as a contract for mutual benefit, the article complicates this picture...

... as a commodity to maximize her own reproductive potential (239). France Winddance Twine ( 2015 ) shows how ova procurement and especially international gestational surrogacy are lucrative international businesses that extract and sell human materials from racialized women who often live in economic precarity...

...-party donation is eff ectively in place, such that ova, sperm, embryo, and uterus donation (as in surrogacy) are all strictly prohibited (Serour 1996; Meirow and Schenker 1997; Eich 2002; 2005; 2006; Moosa 2003; Inhorn 2003b; 2006a). Diverging from this course, the Supreme Leader...

... on Iran’s fertility transition. He organized panels on social aspects of gamete donation and surrogacy at two recent conferences sponsored by the Avesina Research Institute in Tehran, and has published papers on infertility and gamete donation in Iran. Marcia C. Inhorn is Professor...

... anthropologists who are interested in the intersection of politics, religion, and new reproductive technologies. It is also recommended for potential parents considering surrogacy and those interested in women’s and fam- ily issues and the adaptation of Jewish law to modern technologies...

... technologies between Sunni and Shi‘a leaders. For example, the chapter on gestational surrogacy in Iran—where it is now allowed—argues that Sunni notions of nasab (lineage) confer more importance on the male line, whereas in Shi‘ism, it is more gender-balanced (158). 144  mn  Journal of Middle East...

... and Forced Sterilizations in Peru .” In The Politics of Reproduction: Adoption, Abortion, and Surrogacy in the Age of Neoliberalism , edited by Roy Modhumita and Thompson Mary , 138 – 54 . Columbus : Ohio State University Press . Christie-Miller Alexander . 2012 . “ Turkey’s...