EXPERIENCING INFERTILITY IN CONTEMPORARY TURKEY: GENDER, RELIGIOUS AND SOCIO-CULTURAL ASPECTS OF STIGMATIZATION OF INFERTILITITY

Authors

  • Kotova N.I.

Keywords:

IVF, infertility, assisted reproductive technologies (ART), motherhood, stigmatization, infertility, surrogate motherhood, procreation, pro-natalism, femininity, masculinity

Abstract

Review on: Merve Demircioglu Goknar. «Achieving Procreation. Childlessness and IVF in Turkey». Series “Fertility, reproduction and sexuality”, Volume 29. N.Y. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015.

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Published

2021-04-12

Issue

2016 — No. 1 (11)

Section

SCIENCE / Reviews