Anthropology
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Council on Anthropology and Reproduction

Articles and Book Chapters
"A Fluid Mechanics of Erotas and Aghape: Family Planning and Maternal Consumption in Contemporary Greece." Love and Globalization: Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World. Mark B. Padilla, Jennifer S. Hirsch, Miguesl Munoz-Laboy, Robert E. Sember, and Richard G. Parker, eds. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2007, pp. 120-138.

"Reproduction as Spiritual Kin Work: Orthodoxy, IVF and the Moral Economy of Motherhood in Greece." Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry. 30(4): 481-505, 2006.

"Sex on the Brain: 'A Natural History of Rape' and the Dubious Doctrines of Evolutionary Psychology." Co-authored with Stefan Helmreich. Why America's Top Pundits are Wrong: Anthropologists Talk Back. Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson, eds. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005, pp. 180-256.

"Underfertility's Challenge to Family and Gender Relations in Urban Greece." Barren States: The Population "Implosion" in Europe. Oxford; New York, NY: Berg, 2005, pp. 137-157.

"Family Planning, Human Nature, and the Ethical Subject of Sex in Urban Greece." Sex in Development: Science, Sexuality, and Morality in Global Perspective. Vincanne Adams and Stacy Leigh Pigg, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005, pp. 95-124.

"With or Against Nature? IVF, Gender, and Reproductive Agency in Athens, Greece." Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 56, 2003, pp. 1853-1866.

"Rationalizing Sex: Family Planning and the Making of Modern Lovers in Urban Greece." American Ethnologist, Vol. 29, No. 2, 2002, pp. 307-334.

"Demographics and Diaspora, Gender and Genealogy: Anthropological Notes on Greek Population Policy." Southern European Society & Politics, Vol. 2, No. 2, Autumn 1997, pp. 34-56.