Egg freezing, stratified reproduction and the logic of not
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5840207 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa C Ikemoto (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 112-117 |
| Publication date | 2015-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Law and the Biosciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2053-9711 • E-ISSN: 2053-9711 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jlb/lsu037 |
| PMID | 27774187 |
| OpenAlex | W3122830432 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
This commentary examines social and political implications of social egg freezing in a market that is stratified, globalized, and part of a larger bioeconomy. John Robertson's article and public discourse prompted by Facebook and Apple's 'corporate egg freezing' benefits provide touchstones for interrogating social and industry practices that embrace making reproductive capacity marketable. Supply of the cells and bodies necessary for assisted reproductive technology use depends on market thinking and structural inequality. What the industry produces are carefully calibrated social-political distances between participants in egg freezing and banking, as well as 'third party reproduction
Assisted reproductive technology · Structural inequality · Reproductive Health and Technologies
Freezing Eggs and Creating Patients
Commercial egg extraction and the discourse on empowerment/exploitation in India
Integrating intersectionality into autonomy
How Do Welfare States Support Reproductive Equity? A Comparative Analysis across Countries and over Time
Gender and women in scientific literature on bioeconomy
Moral Agency in the Reproductive Marketplace
Reproductive geopolitics
Reproductive Equity Support
The baby business booms
The Biomedicalization of Social Egg Freezing
Oocyte provision as a (quasi) social market
| Citations per year | 1.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |