Berghahn Series
Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
General Editors:
Soraya Tremayne, Founding Director, Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group and Research Affiliate, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
Marcia C. Inhorn, William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, Yale University
Philip Kreager, Director, Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group, and Research Affiliate, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Institute of Human Sciences, University of Oxford
Understanding the complex and multifaceted issue of human reproduction has been, and remains, of great interest both to academics and practitioners. This series includes studies by specialists in the field of social, cultural, medical, and biological anthropology, medical demography, psychology, and development studies. Current debates and issues of global relevance on the changing dynamics of fertility, human reproduction and sexuality are addressed.
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Formal submissions should be sent directly to Berghahn Books. For more information on Berghahn's manuscript submission procedure, please look at the Info for Authors section on this web site. All submissions to this series, as well as any queries about the formal procedure, should be sent to Berghahn.
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Volume 56
Women’s Empowerment and Son Preference in India
Feminist and Ethical discourse on Sex Selective Abortions
Sheela Suryanarayanan
Published: 2025 -
Volume 55
Religious Sensibilities in Pursuit of Sexual Well-Being
African Diasporic Communities in the Netherlands
Amisah Zenabu Bakuri
Published: 2024 -
Volume 54
Invisible Labours
The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England
Aimee Louise Middlemiss
Published: 2024 -
Volume 53
Children are Everywhere
Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin
Meghana Joshi
Published: 2023 -
Volume 52
Making Multiple Babies
Anticipatory Regimes of Assisted Reproduction
Chia-Ling Wu
Published: 2023 -
Volume 51
Sexual Self-Fashioning
Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging
Rahil Roodsaz
Published: 2022 -
Volume 50
Inconceivable Iran
To Reproduce or Not to Reproduce?
Soraya Tremayne
Published: 2022 -
Volume 49
Good Enough Mothers
Practicing Nurture and Motherhood in Chiapas, Mexico
JM López
Published: 2021 -
Volume 48
How is a Man Supposed to be a Man?
Male Childlessness – a Life Course Disrupted
Robin A. Hadley
Published: 2021 -
Volume 47
Waithood
Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing
Edited by Marcia C. Inhorn and Nancy J. Smith-Hefner
Published: 2020 -
Volume 46
Abortion in Post-revolutionary Tunisia
Politics, Medicine and Morality
Irene Maffi
Published: 2020 -
Volume 45
Navigating Miscarriage
Social, Medical and Conceptual Perspectives
Edited by Susie Kilshaw and Katie Borg
Published: 2020 -
Volume 44
Privileges of Birth
Constellations of Care, Myth, and Race in South Africa
Jennifer J. M. Rogerson
Published: 2019 -
Volume 43
Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies
The Case of France and Belgium
Edited by Jennifer Merchant
Published: 2019
Foreword by Irène Théry -
Volume 42
Making Bodies Kosher
The Politics of Reproduction among Haredi Jews in England
Ben Kasstan
Published: 2019 -
Volume 41
Elite Malay Polygamy
Wives, Wealth and Woes in Malaysia
Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen
Published: 2018 -
Volume 40
Being a Sperm Donor
Masculinity, Sexuality, and Biosociality in Denmark
Sebastian Mohr
Published: 2018 -
Volume 39
Global Fluids
The Cultural Politics of Reproductive Waste and Value
Charlotte Kroløkke
Published: 2018 -
Volume 38
Reconceiving Muslim Men
Love and Marriage, Family and Care in Precarious Times
Edited by Marcia C. Inhorn and Nefissa Naguib
Published: 2018 -
Volume 37
The Anthropology of the Fetus
Biology, Culture, and Society
Edited by Sallie Han, Tracy K. Betsinger, and Amy B. Scott
Published: 2017
Foreword by Rayna Rapp -
Volume 36
Fertility, Conjuncture, Difference
Anthropological Approaches to the Heterogeneity of Modern Fertility Declines
Edited by Philip Kreager and Astrid Bochow
Published: 2017 -
Volume 35
The Online World of Surrogacy
Zsuzsa Berend
Published: 2016 -
Volume 34
Conceptions
Infertility and Procreative Technologies in India
Aditya Bharadwaj
Published: 2016 -
Volume 33
Patient-Centred IVF
Bioethics and Care in a Dutch Clinic
Trudie Gerrits
Published: 2016 -
Volume 32
Parenthood between Generations
Transforming Reproductive Cultures
Edited by Siân Pooley and Kaveri Qureshi
Published: 2016 -
Volume 31
Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Third Phase
Global Encounters and Emerging Moral Worlds
Edited by Kate Hampshire and Bob Simpson
Published: 2015 -
Volume 30
Thai in Vitro
Gender, Culture and Assisted Reproduction
Andrea Whittaker
Published: 2015 -
Volume 29
Achieving Procreation
Childlessness and IVF in Turkey
Merve Demircioğlu Göknar
Published: 2015 -
Volume 28
Cousin Marriages
Between Tradition, Genetic Risk and Cultural Change
Edited by Alison Shaw and Aviad Raz
Published: 2015 -
Volume 27
Globalized Fatherhood
Edited by Marcia C. Inhorn, Wendy Chavkin & José-Alberto Navarro
Published: 2014 -
Volume 26
Nighttime Breastfeeding
An American Cultural Dilemma
Cecília Tomori
Published: 2014 -
Volume 26
Nighttime Breastfeeding
An American Cultural Dilemma
Cecília Tomori
Published: 2025 -
Volume 25
Pregnancy in Practice
Expectation and Experience in the Contemporary US
Sallie Han
Published: 2013 -
Volume 24
Militant Lactivism?
Attachment Parenting and Intensive Motherhood in the UK and France
Charlotte Faircloth
Published: 2013 -
Volume 23
Islam and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Sunni and Shia Perspectives
Edited by Marcia C. Inhorn and Soraya Tremayne
Published: 2012 -
Volume 22
Fatness and the Maternal Body
Women's Experiences of Corporeality and the Shaping of Social Policy
Edited by Maya Unnithan-Kumar and Soraya Tremayne
Published: 2011 -
Volume 21
Unsafe Motherhood
Mayan Maternal Mortality and Subjectivity in Post-War Guatemala
Nicole S. Berry
Published: 2010 -
Volume 20
Abortion in Asia
Local Dilemmas, Global Politics
Edited by Andrea Whittaker
Published: 2010 -
Volume 19
Kin, Gene, Community
Reproductive Technologies among Jewish Israelis
Edited by Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Yoram S. Carmeli
Published: 2010 -
Volume 18
Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes
Global Encounters with the New Biotechnologies
Edited by Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Marcia C. Inhorn
Published: 2009 -
Volume 17
Childbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time
Edited by Christine McCourt
Published: 2009
Foreword by Ronnie Frankenberg -
Volume 16
Islam and New Kinship
Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon
Morgan Clarke
Published: 2009 -
Volume 15
Kinship and Beyond
The Genealogical Model Reconsidered
Edited by Sandra Bamford and James Leach
Published: 2009 -
Volume 14
European Kinship in the Age of Biotechnology
Edited by Jeanette Edwards and Carles Salazar
Published: 2009 -
Volume 13
Transgressive Sex
Subversion and Control in Erotic Encounters
Edited by Hastings Donnan and Fiona Magowan
Published: 2009 -
Volume 12
Reconceiving the Second Sex
Men, Masculinity, and Reproduction
Edited by Marcia C. Inhorn, Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Helene Goldberg and Maruska la Cour Mosegaard
Published: 2009 -
Volume 11
Reproductive Disruptions
Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium
Edited by Marcia C. Inhorn
Published: 2007 -
Volume 10
Where There Is No Midwife
Birth and Loss in Rural India
Sarah Pinto
Published: 2008 -
Volume 9
Conceiving Kinship
Assisted Conception, Procreation and Family in Southern Europe
Monica M. E. Bonaccorso
Published: 2008 -
Volume 8
Population, Reproduction and Fertility in Melanesia
Edited by Stanley J. Ulijaszek
Published: 2005 -
Volume 7
Nameless Relations
Anonymity, Melanesia and Reproductive Gift Exchange between British Ova Donors and Recipients
Monica Konrad
Published: 2005 -
Volume 6
Ageing Without Children
European and Asian Perspectives on Elderly Access to Support Networks
Edited by Philip Kreager and Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill
Published: 2005 -
Volume 5
Breast Feeding and Sexuality
Behaviour, Beliefs and Taboos among the Gogo Mothers in Tanzania
Mara Mabilia
Published: 2005
Translated from the Italian by Mary S. Ash -
Volume 4
A New Look At Thai Aids
Perspectives from the Margin
Graham Fordham
Published: 2004 -
Volume 3
Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State
Cultural Transformations in Childbearing
Edited by Maya Unnithan-Kumar
Published: 2004 -
Volume 2
Modern Babylon?
Prostituting Children in Thailand
Heather Montgomery
Published: 2001 -
Volume 1
Managing Reproductive Life
Cross-Cultural Themes in Fertility and Sexuality
Edited by Soraya Tremayne
Published: 2001