Contributors
- Contributors
Ruth Barzilai-Lumbroso is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program in Gender Studies at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, and Lecturer in the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. She is former head of the Women and Gender Studies Program at the Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel in the Galilee, and has also taught at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Her research interests include the history of women in the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, women in the Middle East, gender and society in Israel, feminist theory, and women and sexual violence. Her recent publications include “Kemalism and Feminism,” in Women and Gender in the Middle East during the Twentieth Century, ed. Ruth Roded and Noga Efrati (in Hebrew, 2008), and “Women Lead Change: Training Volunteers for a Rape Crisis Center / Hot Line in Taibeh” (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007).
Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli is a health sociologist at the Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her primary research domain is medical technologies and gender, with a focus on procreative and genetic technologies. Professor Birenbaum-Carmeli has published extensively on these subjects in a wide range of sociological, anthropological, and health journals.
Marcia C. Inhorn is William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs in the Department of Anthropology and the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. She also serves as chair of Yale’s Council on Middle East Studies. A specialist on Middle Eastern gender and health [End Page 110] issues, Inhorn has conducted research on the social impact of infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in Egypt, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, and Arab America. She is the author of three books on the subject, Local Babies, Global Science (2003), Infertility and Patriarchy (1996), and Quest for Conception (1994). She was a visiting faculty member at the American University of Beirut and the American University of Sharjah, where she conducted studies on Middle Eastern masculinities in the age of new reproductive technologies and globalization and reproductive tourism in the Arab world. She is the founding editor of JMEWS and co-editor of the Berghahn Books Series on Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality.
Pardis Mahdavi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Pomona College in Claremont, California. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociomedical Sciences and Anthropology and Master’s degrees in Anthropology and International Affairs from Columbia University. Her research interests include sexuality, human rights, transnational feminism, and public health in the context of changing global and political structures. She is the author of Passionate Uprisings: Iran’s Sexual Revolution (2008). She has also published in the Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures; Culture, Health and Sexuality; Anthropology News; Iran Today; and ISIM Review. She has received research awards from the American Public Health Association, the Society for Medical Anthropology, and the Society for Applied Anthropology. She is a member of the editorial board of Culture, Health and Sexuality, and an editor of Rahavard, a quarterly journal devoted to contemporary social issues in Iran and among the Iranian diaspora. [End Page 111]
