Common Discourses on Reproduction : Reconsidering Turkey in the Middle Eastern Context

The reproduction issue monopolised by the spheres of “private” and “natural” has been one of the major topics frequently discussed by feminist critics and feminist anthropologists in particular. Women reproduction recognized as an issue within a constant interaction with every sort of political discourse and power relations. Throughout the article the main discussions in the field on reproduction, the other discourses which are thought to have a connection with reproduction, and the etnographies which are thought to resemble the situation in Turkey will be evaluated.