Women, Consider Freezing your Eggs (CNN Opinion)
CNN Opinion April 9, 2013 Egg freezing is the newest reproductive technology: a recently perfected form of flash-freezing that allows human eggs to be successfully stored in egg banks. Only commercially available in American IVF clinics since October 2012, when the...
[Audio] An interview with C.S. Soong on the KPFA/Pacifica Radio program Against the Grain
What can the pursuit of infertility treatment by many Arab and Muslim couples tell us about religion, technology, migration, healthcare provision, gender roles and stereotypes, and violent conflict? Marcia Inhorn discusses her multifaceted research into the situation...
2012 Council on Anthropology & Reproduction (CAR) Prize for “Most Notable Recent Edited Collection”
2012 Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (CAR) Prize for “Most Notable Recent Edited Collection” for Assisting Reproduction, Testing Genes: Global Encounters with New Biotechnologies, eds. Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli and Marcia C. Inhorn (Berghahn Books 2009). ~ ~...
[video] Marcia Inhorn’s The New Arab Man, an interview on the MacMillan Report
Yale MacMillan Center interviews medical anthropologist Prof Marcia Inhorn on her new book "The New Arab Man"
[audio] The New Arab Man, BBC Radio’s “Thinking Aloud”
The 'New' Arab Man: Middle Eastern, Muslim men are often represented as 'zealots' and oppressors of women. But Laurie Taylor hears how 2 decades of research by the Professor of Anthropology, Marcia Inhorn, is undermining such cultural stereotypes. Her study found that...
Just Published – The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East
Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women. The New Arab Man challenges these stereotypes with the stories of ordinary Middle Eastern men as they struggle to overcome infertility and...
[audio] Middle Eastern Manhood: Islam, Assisted Reproduction and Emergent Masculinities.
Panel on Anthropology of Masculinities, MESA 2011, December 3, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm.
New Special Issue on Cross-Border Reproductive Care (a.k.a. Reproductive Tourism)
Reproductive BioMedicine Online – Special Issue on “Cross-Border Reproductive Care: Ethical, Legal, and Socio-cultural Perspectives” Cross-border reproductive care (CBRC) is a fast-growing phenomenon at the intersection of medicine, law, business and travel. Driven by...
A Lecture at UC-Berkeley’s Center for Middle East Studies
Global Gametes: Reproductive "Tourism" & Islamic Bioethics in the High-Tech Middle East Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), including in vitro fertilization (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) to overcome infertility, are now widely...
Three New Books by Marcia Inhorn
The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East, by Marcia C. Inhorn (Princeton University Press, 2012) Since September 11th, 2001, Middle Eastern Muslim men have been particularly vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and...
Yale Authority on Infertility in the Middle East Is Twice Honored
New Haven, Conn. — Yale Professor Marcia Inhorn, a leading scholar in the field of medical anthropology, has been named the first Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor at the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge in honor of her...
Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies Book Award
The Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (JMEWS) Book Award has been established by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) to recognize and promote excellence in the fields of Middle East women’s or gender studies, broadly defined. The JMEWS Book...
Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies Graduate Student Paper Prize
The Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (JMEWS) Graduate Student Paper Prize has been established by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) to recognize and promote excellence in the fields of Middle East women’s or gender studies, broadly defined,...
Anthropology of the Middle East: A New Millennium, MESA 2011
Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting December 1-4, 2011 Marriott Wardman Park Washington, DC At its annual meeting, the Executive Board of the Middle East Studies Association discussed the importance of engaging the new trajectories in the...
2011 JMEWS Distinguished Lecture and Research Workshops
I am pleased to announce that the 2011 Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies Distinguished Lecture and Research Workshops will take place on Friday, April 15 at Yale University and will explore the topic of “Gender and the Middle East Uprisings.” Our Distinguished...
The first Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge
In Fall 2010, Dr. Inhorn was the first Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor in the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her inaugural lecture was entitled, “Global Gametes: Reproductive ‘Tourism’ and Islamic Bioethics in the...
“Anthropology of the Middle East: A New Millennium” is Being Organized for MESA 2011 Annual Meeting
“Anthropology of the Middle East: A New Millennium” Conference, part of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting, December 1-4, 2011, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, DC. Organized by Suad Joseph, MESA President, and Marcia C. Inhorn, MESA...
An interview with Marcia Inhorn, by Eugene Raikhel
Eugene Raikhel (ER): To begin I wanted to ask about how you got started working on fertility in Egypt? What were the motivations for you? Marcia Inhorn (MI): When I went to graduate school at Berkeley, the motivating questions were stigma and suffering. This is a...
[video] The Macmillan Report: Social Impact of Infertility in Middle East, Prof. Marcia Inhorn
The Macmillan Report: Social Impact of Infertility in Middle East, Prof. Marcia Inhorn
Marcia Inhorn is the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor
New Haven, Conn. — Marcia C. Inhorn, who has joined the Yale faculty as the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs, is a specialist on the Middle East. At Yale, Inhorn is also serving as chair of the Council of Middle East Studies at...