Abortion in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia

Irene Maffi is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lausanne, and Associated Researcher at Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen. She is the author of Women, Health and the State in the Middle East (2012, I.B.Tauris) and co-editor  of Reinventing Love? Gender, Intimacy and Romance in the Arab World (2018, Peter Lang).

“This book takes on a thorny subject which is very timely and for which little data exists. It is well-written and comprehensive. The research is well done and unique. There’s no competition for this book.” Donna Lee Bowen, Brigham Young University

• List of figuresPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNotes on transliterationIntroduction: Situating Abortion: Islam, the Arab countries and the Tunisian ExceptionChapter 1. Putting Abortion into Question: Debates, Actors and Stakes after the RevolutionChapter 2. Contracepted Bodies and Reproductive NormsChapter 3. Reproductive Governance, Moral Regimes and Unwanted PregnanciesChapter 4. Imagining Early Pregnancy: Ontologies of the Foetus and the Moral Perception of AbortionConclusionGlossaryReferencesIndex