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Motherhood on Ice - The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs (Hardcover)
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Motherhood on Ice - The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs (Hardcover)
Series: Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice
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Answers the question: Why are women freezing their eggs? Why are
women freezing their eggs in record numbers? Motherhood on Ice
explores this question by drawing on the stories of more than 150
women who pursued fertility preservation technology. Moving between
narratives of pain and empowerment, these nuanced personal stories
reveal the complexity of women’s lives as they struggle to
preserve and extend their fertility. Contrary to popular belief,
egg freezing is rarely about women postponing fertility for the
sake of their careers. Rather, the most-educated women are
increasingly forced to delay childbearing because they face a
mating gap—a lack of eligible, educated, equal partners ready for
marriage and parenthood. For these women, egg freezing is a
reproductive backstop, a technological attempt to bridge the gap
while waiting for the right partner. But it is not an easy choice
for most. Their stories reveal the extent to which it is
logistically complicated, physically taxing, financially demanding,
emotionally draining, and uncertain in its effects. In this
powerful book, women share their reflections on their clinical
encounters, as well as the immense hopes and investments they place
in this high-tech fertility preservation strategy. Race, religion,
and the role of men in the lives of single women pursuing this
technology are also explored. A distinctly human portrait of an
understudied and rapidly growing population, Motherhood on Ice
examines what is at stake for women who take comfort in their
frozen eggs while embarking on their quests for partnership,
pregnancy, and parenting.
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