Inconceivable Iran

Soraya Tremayne is a social anthropologist, the Co-Founding Director of the Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group, and a Research Affiliate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford. She is the Founding Editor of the series Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality and was formerly Director of the International Gender Studies at the University of Oxford.

Introduction



Part I: Modernity, Discord, Compliance



Chapter 1. Change and “Face” in Modern Iran (2006)

Chapter 2. Modernity and Early Marriage in Iran: A View from Within (2006)

Chapter 3. The Four Faces of Iranian Fatherhood (2014)



Part II: Population, Reproduction, Politics



Chapter 4. “And Never the Twain Shall Meet”: Reproductive Health Policies in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2004)

Chapter 5. “As List E Karhayee Ke Bayad Anjame Midadam Khat Khord”: Contemporary Reproductive Body Politic in Iran (2020)

Chapter 6. “The Only Thing [the State is] Good at is Intruding in People’s Beds”: Citizens as Tools of Reproduction



Part III: Kinship, Family, Gender



Chapter 7. The “Down Side” of Gamete Donation: Challenging “Happy Family” Rhetoric in Iran (2012)

Chapter 8. Gender and Reproductive Technologies in Shia Iran (2014)

Chapter 9. Assisted Reproductive Technologies and Making and Unmaking of Kin in Iran: Transformation or Variation on a Theme? (2018)



Part IV: Fertility, Religion, Technology



Chapter 10. Law, Ethics, and Donor Technologies in Shia Iran (2009)

Chapter 11. Conceiving IVF in Iran (2016)

Chapter 12. Third-Party Gamete Donation, Anonymity, and the Conundrum of Lineage



Conclusion



Index