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When Reproduction meets Ageing - The Science and Medicine of the Fertility Decline (Hardcover)
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When Reproduction meets Ageing - The Science and Medicine of the Fertility Decline (Hardcover)
Series: Emerald Studies in Reproduction, Culture and Society
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Since the 1970s, alarming discourses about declining fertility and
the difficulties of balancing work and family have flourished in
Western countries. Captured by the notion of the 'biological
clock', they put women's reproductive age and the fertility decline
to the centre of public and medical attention. Reproductive
biomedicine constitutes a specific domain invested with hopes for
technological and medical answers and a new market for fertility
extension technologies, such as egg donation and social egg
freezing. Addressing long-standing questions about the articulation
of the biological and the social in the making of bodies and
identities, this book questions the nature of reproductive ageing,
a taken for granted 'fact of life' at the core of reproductive
biomedicine. What is the biology of the 'biological clock' made of
and how can we account for its embodied reality from a feminist
perspective? Opening the black box of the biological, the book
makes a way between essentialism and constructivism with the aim of
accounting for its materiality, while also illuminating its
political implications. By following the ontological choreographies
of age-related infertility in the science and medicine of
reproduction, this study explores how age materializes and
documents what happens when reproduction meets ageing. Deeply
transdisciplinary, it questions what is fixed about the biology of
the fertility decline in a way which adds complexity to debates
about the biomedicalization of reproductive ageing.
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