When IVF Fails: Feminism, Infertility and the Negotiation of Normality

Palgrave-Macmillan (2004)
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Abstract

This book is a discourse analysis of a series of interviews with women and couples who have had IVF unsuccessfully and who have subsequently stopped treatment. Taking a feminist approach, the book argues that treatment failure produces an ongoing and profoundly gendered burden of discursive work that is oriented towards locating the self, and the engagement with IVF, as "normal".

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