Prof. Elly Teman

Faculty of Social & Community Sciences
Prof. Elly Teman
ellyt@ruppin.ac.il

Building 7, room 10

Visit Hours by appointment

Teaching

  • Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
  • Anthropology of Reproduction
  • Anthropology of the Body
  • Seminar on Gender, Body, Identity: Socio-Cultural Perspectives
  • Qualitative Methods
  • Service Learning through Life Stories

Research

  • Creative ethnography through comics
  • Graphic Medicine
  • Surrogacy in Israel
  • Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women and prenatal diagnosis
  • Reproductive Technologies

Selected Publications

Teman, Elly & Berend, Zsuzsa (2025). A Tale of Two Surrogates: A Graphic Narrative on Assisted Reproduction. Art by Andrea Scebba. Penn State University Press.

Berend, Zsuzsa & Elly Teman (2025). Dimensions of Time and Comparative Analysis in Surrogacy Research. Ethnography. In Press.

Teman, Elly & Chorowicz Bar-Am, Orit (2025). The Double Legal Consciousness of Religious Jewish Surrogates. Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues. In Press.

Teman, Elly & Chorowicz Bar-Am, Orit (2025). Rethinking the Jewish Womb in Israel. Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health & Illness, 1–14.

תימן, אלי (2021). תנור שאופה את הלחם בשביל אנשים רעבים: פונדקאיות מבנות את מושג האימהות. בתוך: טימור, צפי (עורכת), הורות מכל הכיוונים. מכון מופת.

Teman, Elly, & Berend, Zsuzsa (2022). Individual responsibility or trust in the state: A comparison of surrogates' legal consciousness. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 63(5-6), 265-284.

Teman, Elly, and Berend, Zsuzsa (2021). Surrogacy as a family project: How surrogates articulate familial identity and belonging. Journal of Family Issues, 42(6), 1143-1165.

Teman, Elly. (2019). The Power of the Single Story in Surrogacy: Surrogacy and Social Media in Israel. Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health & Illness, 38(3), 282-294.

Teman, Elly & Berend, Zsuzsa (2018). Surrogate non-motherhood: Israeli and US surrogates speak about kinship and parenthood. Anthropology & medicine, 25(3), 296–310.

Teman, Elly (2010). Birthing a Mother: the Surrogate Body and the Pregnant Self. Berkeley: University of California Press.