When reproduction meets ageing : the science and medicine of the fertility decline /

What is really biological about the "biological clock" and how can we account for its embodied reality from a feminist perspective? Addressing long-standing questions about the articulation of the biological and the social in the making of bodies and identities, this book questions the nat...

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Hovedforfatter: Bühler, Nolwenn (Author)
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
Serier:Emerald studies in reproduction, culture and society.
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Online adgang:https://doi.org/10.1108/9781839097461
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • Introduction: A question of age
  • Chapter 1. Natures and cultures: divisions, entanglements and reconfigurations
  • Chapter 2. The science of population and the quest for natural fertility: what age becomes in statistics
  • Chapter 3. From age to ageing: arts and the science of 'old eggs'
  • Chapter 4. When age matters: the statistics and biology of fertility decline in clinical choreographies
  • Chapter 5. Ageing eggs, ageless mothers? Egg donation and the extension of fertility
  • Chapter 6. Eggs for ever or the prospect of regeneration
  • Conclusion: rethinking the materialisation of age through the lens of its political implications.