Book Launch Event: Soraya Tremayne, Inconceivable Iran: To Reproduce or Not to Reproduce? 26 January 2024 

BOOK LAUNCH EVENT

Friday 26 January 2024, 3.00-5.00pm GMT

Soraya Tremayne (Co-Founding Director of the Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group; Research Affiliate at the Instituteof Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford)

joined by the other two general editors of the series

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 CulturalAnthropology and Institute of Human Sciences, University of Oxford) 

This is a hybrid event.

To join us online via Zoom, register here:https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x2UrbfiPQS28NVjBDQHFAQ 

To join us in Person at the RAI, register here:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-soraya-tremayne-tickets-775706016577?aff=oddtdtcreator 

Celebrating the 50th volume of the landmark Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality series (Berghahn Books), this book offersa much-needed analysis of shifting reproductive policies and practices in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a society that isusually represented as either “revolutionary” or “oppressive.” Instead, Tremayne reflects on more than four decades ofresearch arguing that changing reproductive behaviors on the part of ordinary Iranians must always be viewed against thebackdrop of core cultural values and traditions, which are often reinforced, instead of radically altered, by new reproductivetechnologies, juridical opinions, and state policies.