Patriarchal pronatalism:Islam, secularism and the conjugal confines of Turkey's IVF boom
Dublin Core
Title
Patriarchal pronatalism:Islam, secularism and the conjugal confines of Turkey's IVF boom
Author
Gürtin, Zeynep B.
Publisher
2016/06/00
Language
English
Publication Date
20160600
Abstract
This article constructs an explanatory history of the introduction, growth and social regulation of IVF in Turkey, labelling it a form of ‘patriarchal pronatalism’. Based on sociological research between 2006 and 2010, including analysis of regulatory and media materials as well as an in-depth clinical ethnography and interviews with IVF patients and practitioners, the paper contextualizes Turkey’s ‘IVF boom’ within the wider and governmental contexts of reproductive politics. Examining both the legal framework and the surrounding rhetoric, it highlights how the nationally pertinent tensions between Islam and secularism unfold in this particular field, and traces how the rise of neo-conservatism and the expansion of the role of religious organizations and discourses has led to the promotion and development of assisted reproduction, but only within strictly enforced conjugal confines. This work contributes not only to the significant sociological and anthropological scholarship on the globalization, localization and repro-national character of assisted reproductive technologies around the world, but also to the growing scholarship examining the contours of reproductive citizenship, gender relations and family formation in contemporary Turkey.
Notes
Symposium issue: IVF - Global Histories. Edited by Sarah Franklin and Marcia C. Inhorn
Primary Classification
14.4
Secondary Classification
14.4;14.1;1.2;7.1
Primary keywords
in vitro fertilization--[pri];Islamic ethics--[pri];reproductive technologies--[pri];secularism--[pri];social control--[pri];sociology--[pri]
Secondary keywords
government financing;infertility;health care delivery;married persons
Subject
Turkey--[pri]
Conference
IVF: Global Histories; April 2015;Yale University
Journal Article
Reproductive Biomedicine and Society Online2016, June; 2:39-46
Link for Internet access
Note
Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Copyright © 2016 Elsevier B.V.
Call Number
citation
Bibliography
44 refs
ISSN
24056618 (online)
Collection
Citation
“Patriarchal pronatalism:Islam, secularism and the conjugal confines of Turkey's IVF boom,” Islamic Medical & Scientific Ethics, accessed January 16, 2025, https://imse.ibp.georgetown.domains/items/show/37369.