Publications
Articles in Refereed Journals
Ivry, T. Ogawa, M., Murotsuki, J. (Forthcoming) Virtuous Indecisiveness: Structural Moral Ambivalence and the Tentative Implementation of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing in Japan. Cultural Anthropology May 2023 Vol.38 issue 2.
Teman, E., & Ivry, T. (2021). Pregnancy and the Reproductive Habitus of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women. Medical Anthropology, 1-13.
Ivry, T., & Teman, E. (2019) Shouldering Moral Responsibility: The Division of Moral Labor among Pregnant Women, Rabbis, and Doctors. American Anthropologist
Ivry, T., Takaki-Einy, R., & Murotsuki, J. (2019). What disasters can reveal about techno-medical birth: Japanese women’s stories of childbirth during the 11 March, 2011 earthquake. Health, Risk & Society, 21(3-4), 164-184.
Ivry, T., & Teman, E. (2018). Pregnant Metaphors and Surrogate Meanings: Bringing the Ethnography of Pregnancy and Surrogacy into Conversation in Israel and Beyond. Medical anthropology quarterly, 32(2), 254-271.
Teman, E., Ivry, T., & Goren, H. (2016). Obligatory effort [hishtadlut] as an explanatory model: A critique of reproductive choice and control. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 40(2), 268-288. . PDF
Ivry, T. (2015). The pregnancy manifesto: notes on how to extract reproduction from the petri dish. Medical anthropology, 34(3), 274-289. PDF
Ivry, T. (2015). The Predicaments of Koshering Prenatal Diagnosis and the Rise of a New Rabbinic Leadership. Ethnologie française, 45(2), 281-292. PDF
Ivry, T. (2015). Les dilemmes du diagnostic prénatal cacher et la montée d’un nouveau leadership rabbinique. Ethnologie française, 45(2), 281-292.
Ivry, T. (2013). Halachic infertility: rabbis, doctors, and the struggle over professional boundaries. Medical anthropology, 32(3), 208-226.
Ivry, T., Teman, E., & Frumkin, A. (2011). God-sent ordeals and their discontents: Ultra-orthodox Jewish women negotiate prenatal testing. Social Science & Medicine, 72(9), 1527-1533.
Teman, E., Ivry, T., & Bernhardt, B. A. (2011). Pregnancy as a proclamation of faith: Ultra‐Orthodox Jewish women navigating the uncertainty of pregnancy and prenatal diagnosis. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, 155(1), 69-80.
Ivry, T. (2010). Kosher medicine and medicalized halacha: An exploration of triadic relations among Israeli rabbis, doctors, and infertility patients. American Ethnologist, 37(4), 662-680.
Ivry, T. (2009). The ultrasonic picture show and the politics of threatened life. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 23(3), 189-211.
Ivry, T., & Teman, E. (2008). Expectant Israeli fathers and the medicalized pregnancy: Ambivalent compliance and critical pragmatism. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 32(3), 358-385.
Tsipy, I. (2007). Embodied responsibilities: pregnancy in the eyes of Japanese ob‐gyns. Sociology of health & illness, 29(2), 251-274.
Ivry, T. (2006). At the back stage of prenatal care: Japanese ob‐gyns negotiating prenatal diagnosis. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 20(4), 441-468.
Chapters in edited volumes
Tsipy Ivry and Hille Hacker moderated by Christina Schües, Anne Weber, (2022) “ Socio-Cultural and Religious Views on Prenatal Diagnosis in Israel and Germany”.in Christina Schües (ed.) Genetic Responsibility in Germany and Israel. Practices of Prenatal Diagnosis. Transcript Verlag (transcript-verlag.de)
Forthcoming: Elly, Teman and Ivry T., Pregnancy and Piety: the Situated Ethics of Prenatal Diagnostic Technologies for Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women. Oxford Handbook of Religious Perspectives on Reproductive Ethics.
Ivry, T., & Teman, E. (2019). Paid and Unpaid Labor: Pregnancy and Surrogacy in Anthropological Studies of Reproduction. In S. Bamford (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Kinship (Cambridge Handbooks in Anthropology, pp. 580-602). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781139644938.025
Ivry, T., 2016 “Accommodating Assisted Reproductive Technologies to Rabbinic Law” In Stevenson Eleanor L. and Patricia E. Hershberger eds. Fertility and Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) : Theory, Research, Policy, and Practice for Health Care Practitioners, Chapter 11, pp. 153- 160.
Ivry, T,. Teman, E., Davis‐Floyd, R., & Georges, E. Pregnancy (2015). The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality.
Ivry, T., (2010) “Ultrasonic Challenges to Pro-Natalism” in Birenbaum-Carmeli Daphna and Yoram Carmeli eds. Kin Gene Community Berghan. 174-201.
Ivry, T., (2009) “We are Pregnant: Israeli Men and the Paradoxes of Sharing” in Inhorn Marcia and Tine Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, Maruska La Cour Mosegaard and Helene Goldberg eds. Reconceiving the Second Sex in Reproduction: Men, Sexuality and Masculinity. Berghan: 279-304.
Ivry. T., (2005) “Reproduction as Martial Art: the Rhetoric of Pregnancy and Birth in Israel” (Japanese) [Gunji gijutsu toshite seishoku: isuraelu ni okeru ninshin to shussan no retoriku] in Uesugi Tomiyuki ed. Contemporary Reproductive Medicine: From a Sociological. Perspective. [Gendai Seishoku Iryou: Shakaikagaku kara Apurochi] Shoraisha: Tokyo 181-196.
Research Reports
Ivry, Tsipy (2009) “The Politics of Reproductive Technologies at the Intersection Between Observant Judaism and Biomedicine” Final report of research conducted between July 2007- October 2009.
Ivry, Tsipy (2016) Reproduction in the Aftermath of the Fukushima Disaster: Risky Environments, Genomic Technologies, and Maternal Responsibilities”Midterm report of research conducted between July 20１４ – June 20１６, submitted to the ISF.
Book Reviews
Ivry, Tsipy (2015). Haunting Images: A Cultural Account of Selective Reproduction in Vietnam. Tine M. Gammeltoft, Berkeley: California University Press, 2014, 315 pp.
Ivry, Tsipy (2011) Book Review of Ekaterina Hertog’s 2009 Tough Choices: Bearing an Illegitimate Child in Japan. Stanford University Press: Stanford Japanese Studies 37:2 473-477
Translations from Japanese to Hebrew
Akutagawa Ryunosuke (1922) 1996, “In a Grove”. Sins in World Literature. pp.9-15 Gevanim: Tel Aviv. Translation by Tsipy Ivry.
Akutagawa, Ryunosuke, (1915) 1996, “Rashomon”. Sins in World Literature. pp. 16-24. Gevanim: Tel Aviv. Translation by Tsipy Ivry.
Dissertation:
A. Ph.D. Dissertation Title: “Pregnant with Meaning: Conceptions of Pregnancy in Japan and Israel.”
Accepted by the senate of the Hebrew University on June 2005 with suma cum laude. 450 p; English with Hebrew abstract. Supervisors: Prof. Eyal Ben-Ari and Prof. Meira Weiss; Department of Sociology and Anthropology.