L’infertilité dans les couples hétérosexuels

Genre Et « Gestion » De L’échec

Bibliographic Data

ID6168526
AuthorsVirginie Rozée (0000-0003-0288-982X, Institut national d'études démographiques), Magali Mazuy (Institut national d'études démographiques)
Year2012
Volume30
Issue4
Pages5-30
Publication date2012-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSciences sociales et santé (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0294-0337 • E-ISSN: 1777-5914
PublisherJohn Libbey Eurotext (PUBLISHER • FR)
DOI10.1684/sss.2012.0401
OpenAlexW2084042216
LanguageFR
Citations received8
References cited1

In this paper, we focus on "management" and "treatment" of infertility among infertile heterosexual couples in French society. Before having such fertility problems, these couples met the social requirements for becoming parents. But the failure of the pregnancy project puts them outside the dominant gendered norms of procreation, that is entry into parenthood. This analysis of intimate, social and medical management during the first years of infertility shows that women tend to develop actions to get pregnant rapidly, and so to conform to social norms. For men, the experience of infertility, especially of male infertility, remains less expressive and more taboo

Humanities · Political science · Education, sociology, and vocational training · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Philosophy · Social Policies and Family

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