My thesis exhibition is primarily characterized by research into traditions and taboos related to women and their bodies. While some of the chosen subjects are international matters related to womanhood, others originate from my direct surroundings, specifically, the Iranian cul…
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Looking at the trajectory of Turkish reproductive politics since the 1960s in three distinct periods, this study examines the mismatch between liberal legal reforms, and the lack of change in the gendered reproductive and sexual discourses within a context. By using interpretive…
This dissertation determines the magnitude of abortion, enumerates factors influencing attitudes of women and health care providers towards abortion and compares the cost of complicated and uncomplicated abortions among women visiting health institutions in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia…
Managing Death: Diagnosing the "New " Eugenics in Canadian Legal Discourses and Narratives of Disability, examines how three twentieth-century Canadian legal cases---Henry Morgentaler, Sue Rodriguez, and Robert Latimer---inform and problematize Canada's concept of itself as a li…
This dissertation has explored the gendered ways in which the fear of depopulation was articulated in the mid- to late nineteenth century Ottoman society. In a period marked by huge demographic turbulence, bureaucrats and medical elites became increasingly anxious about the fate…
This thesis presents a complete Jewish legal history of abortion from the earliest relevant biblical references through the end of the twentieth century. Almost every Jewish text relevant to the abortion issue is presented and explored in detail. These texts are investigated in …
The revolutionary political upheavals, the structural socioeconomic changes after the 1979 revolution, and the first post-revolutionary family planning and health program are argued to be the major factors that led to swings in fertility levels over the last decades in Iran. How…
Latin Americans practice reproductive management at rates comparable with Western Europe and North America, a counterintuitive finding given the region's staunchly Catholic past. This paper examines the discourses on Christianity and modernity which, together, shape much of Lati…
This dissertation is composed of three different essays. Each essay discusses how laws change over time. The first essay focuses on marriage in the United States. It starts with the Beckerian model and then develops the relational contract model to analyze the role religion play…
"This book investigates the limits of the legitimate role of the state in regulating the human body. It questions whether there is a public interest in issues of bodily autonomy, body modifications and selling the body. The main question addressed in this book is whether such au…
A Miscarriage of Justice examines women's reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After the abolition of slavery in 1888 and the onset of republicanism in 1889, women's reproductive capabilities--their ability to conceive and raise …
