In Quest for Conception, Marcia C. Inhorn portrays the poignant struggles of poor, urban Egyptian women and their attempts to overcome infertility. The author draws upon fifteen months of fieldwork in urban Egypt to present moving stories of infertile Muslim women whose tumultuous medical pilgrimages have yet to produce the desired pregnancies. Inhorn examines the devastating impact of infertility on the lives of these women, who are threatened with divorce by their husbands, harassed by their husbands' families, and ostracized by neighbors.
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"A remarkable synthesis of ethnography about infertile Egyptian women's attempts to have children, history of the development of Egyptian medical ideas and practices from ancient times, and contemporary political and economic analysis."—Lingua Franca
"Inhorn invokes in her vivid description of her informants' dilemmas and convincing analysis of their explanations of their infertility a combination of variables; gender issues are interwoven with political domination, colonial history, indigenous religious beliefs, economic problems such as poverty and deprivation, state policies regarding family planning and a whole series of interrelated areas."—Middle Eastern Studies
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Dr. Marcia Inhorn harps upon three major themes: infertile Egyptian women's attempts at having children, the history of the development of Egyptian medical ideas and practices from ancient times and their effects on the present,and the present collaboration of econimic and political agendas. This book is for anyone studying or just want to know about infertility and the views of Egyptians.
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In Egypt, infertility, or the inability to conceive, is a devastating problem for women, who attempt to rectify their socially tenuous situations by becoming pregnant and delivering a child. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
infertility causation, ethnogynecological therapies, defloration handkerchief, ethnogynecological causes, ethnogynecological therapy, ritually vulnerable woman, ukht taht, urban infertile women, poor infertile women, cervical electrocautery, religious permissibility, liminal woman, most infertile women, old reproductive technologies, tubal insufflation, spermatic animals, political epidemiology, hermaphroditic goat, many infertile women, prophetic medicine, edible mixture, therapeutic quests, poor urban women, biomedical hegemony, black eggplant Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle East, Shatby Hospital, Muhammad Ali, Saint Mena, Institute of Medicine, Saudi Arabia, United States, Lower Egypt, Sitt Naima, Third World, World Health Organization, Ministry of Health, Prophet Muhammad, Ibn Sina, Nile Delta, Alexander the Great, Marcia Inhorn, Egyptian Muslims, Upper Egypt, Ibn Qayyim, Marsa Matruh New!
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In Egypt, infertility, or the inability to conceive, is a devastating problem for women, who attempt to rectify their socially tenuous situations by becoming pregnant and delivering a child. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
infertility causation, ethnogynecological therapies, defloration handkerchief, ethnogynecological causes, ethnogynecological therapy, ritually vulnerable woman, ukht taht, urban infertile women, poor infertile women, cervical electrocautery, religious permissibility, liminal woman, most infertile women, old reproductive technologies, tubal insufflation, spermatic animals, political epidemiology, hermaphroditic goat, many infertile women, prophetic medicine, edible mixture, therapeutic quests, poor urban women, biomedical hegemony, black eggplant Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle East, Shatby Hospital, Muhammad Ali, Saint Mena, Institute of Medicine, Saudi Arabia, United States, Lower Egypt, Sitt Naima, Third World, World Health Organization, Ministry of Health, Prophet Muhammad, Ibn Sina, Nile Delta, Alexander the Great, Marcia Inhorn, Egyptian Muslims, Upper Egypt, Ibn Qayyim, Marsa Matruh New!
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- Reproductive Technologies (Current Controversies) by Carol Wekesser on 8 pages
- Textbook of Reproductive Medicine by Bruce R. Carr on 6 pages
- Biomedicine Examined (Culture, Illness and Healing) by M. Lock on 4 pages
- Sacred Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage (Contributions to the Study of Anthropology) by Alan Morinis in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Women in the Muslim World by Lois Beck in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Infertility and Patriarchy: The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt by Marcia C. Inhorn on page 45, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Medical Anthropology: Regional Perspectives and Shared Concerns by Francine Saillant on page 55, and page 248
- Medical Anthropology: Regional Perspectives and Shared Concerns by Francine Saillant on page 55, and page 248
- Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies (Inside Technology) by Charis Thompson in Back Matter
- Reproducing Reproduction: Kinship, Power, and Technological Innovation by Sarah Franklin in Front Matter
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