Jennie Doberne

Sociocultural Anthropology

Regional focus: Israel, Middle East

Topical interests: kinship, new reproductive technology, aging

My research focuses on older women’s quest for motherhood as a way to investigate the social and technological limits of pronatalism in Israel. By extending technological and medical resources, the national pronatalist effort is eroding previous biological constraints on maternity and enabling older women to become mothers. This project seeks to account for aging within the cultural complexities of the medical and social production of motherhood in Israel.

Undergraduate Degree: BA Religion, Wesleyan University

Languages: Hebrew, Arabic