Conceptualising women's motivations for social egg freezing and experience of reproductive delay
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2249387 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kylie Baldwin (0000-0001-7256-0312, Centre for Reproduction Research De Montfort University UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 859-873 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9566.12728 |
| PMID | 29602235 |
| OpenAlex | W2788038153 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
| References cited | 61 |
As the average age of motherhood in many Western countries continues to rise, the spectacle of the older mother and the trend towards delayed childbearing has been the subject of much public debate and interest. Concurrent to this trend has been the development and use of a new form of fertility preservation - social egg freezing - a technology which by its very nature is meant to enable reproductive delay. Whilst previous studies have been able to provide insights into the complex and often interrelating structural, economic, and relational factors shaping the timing of motherhood, and in some cases women's use of social egg freezing, fewer studies have clearly demonstrated the way these factors themselves, as well as the accounts of individual women, can be seen as being shaped by ideological and discursive forces. Drawing on interviews with 31 users of social egg freezing this article will demonstrate how women's accounts of reproductive delay and use of egg freezing technology can be seen as being shaped by neoliberal rationality, heteronormativity, discourses of 'appropriate parenting' and gendered ideologies of parenthood
Biology · Fertility · Heteronormativity · Human sexuality · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Population · Rationality · Reproduction · Social change · Sociology · Subject (documents) · Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy · Demography · Ecology · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Social Psychology
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The couple paradox
Pressing Pause
Beyond individualisation
The biomedicalisation of reproductive ageing
Unveiling the controversy on egg freezing in The Netherlands
Reprint
Where has the quest for conception taken us? Lessons from anthropology and sociology
Financing future fertility
Reproductive capital
Between Ambition and Uncertainty
Egg freezing as an employment benefit? Gender, career, and reproductive health in neoliberal academia
Freezing time? The sociology of egg freezing
Artificial Wombs, Frozen Embryos, and Parenthood
Accounting for First-Time Motherhood at Advanced Maternal Age
Quantifying fertility? Direct-to-consumer ovarian reserve testing and the new (in)fertility pipeline
Acceptance and Access
Communicative crises in the age of anxious reproduction and fertility preservation
Forty years of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs)
Adjusting the analytical aperture
Being useful, I think it's the result of a sick society”
The politics of suspension suspended
It gives me time, but does it give me freedom?”
Preserving choice
Welcome to Whenever
Egg Freezing at the End of Romance
Reframing as recourse
Abrahamic traditions and egg freezing
Exploring Medical Egg Freezing as a Disease Management Strategy
Parenthood as intended
I Think I Stick Out a Bit
Motherhood myths and mystiques
Synchronizing the Biological Clock
The cultural contradictions of motherhood
Embodied Progress
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Breaking the ice
Neoliberalism, public health, and the moral perils of fatness
Banking time’
Governmentality, Critical Scholarship, and the Medical Humanities
The experience of infertility
Risky Business”
Postfeminist media culture
I think motherhood for me was a bit like a double‐edged sword’
Timing Motherhood
Fertility and economic instability
Like Having New Batteries Installed!”
I only need her uterus”
The Importance of Motherhood and Fertility Intentions among U.S. Women
Where Are the Babies? Labor Market Conditions and Fertility in Europe
The Motherhood Mandate
Using thematic analysis in psychology
Anticipation
Social influence and the timing of parenthood
From reproduction to research
Colluding with Neo-Liberalism
The decision-making process of genetically at-risk couples considering preimplantation genetic diagnosis
The Normativity of the Concept of Heteronormativity
No Right Time
Governing the Soul - a Quarter of a Century On
I Suppose I Think to Myself, That's the Best Way to Be a Mother
Compelled to Try
Women's Perceptions of Childbirth 'Choices
Childfree And Feminine
Framing Men's Experience in the Procreative Realm
Childlessness and Parenthood in Two Centuries
That's What Makes a Woman
| Unique citing works | 34 |
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| Citations per year | 4,86 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |