When IVF fails : feminism, infertility and the negotiation of normality

When IVF fails feminism, infertility and the negotiation of normality

Karen Throsby offers a discourse analysis of interviews with women & couples who have had unsuccessful IVF therapy. Taking a feminist perspective, she argues that treatment failure produces a gendered burden of discursive work orientated towards locating the self, & the engagement with IVF,...

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1. Verfasser: Throsby, Karen (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York Palgrave Macmillan 2004
Schlagworte:
Fertilization in vitro, Human > Infertility > Feminism > Human reproductive technology > Fertilization in Vitro > Reproductive Behavior > psychology > Social Environment > Women > Interview > Extrakorporale Befruchtung > Reproduktionsmedizin > Feminismus
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Zusammenfassung:Karen Throsby offers a discourse analysis of interviews with women & couples who have had unsuccessful IVF therapy. Taking a feminist perspective, she argues that treatment failure produces a gendered burden of discursive work orientated towards locating the self, & the engagement with IVF, as 'normal'
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-209) and index
Beschreibung:viii, 223 Seiten
23 cm
ISBN:1403935548
1-4039-3554-8
9781403935540
978-1-4039-3554-0
9781349999767
978-1-349-99976-7
9781403935548