Freezing fertility : : oocyte cryopreservation and the gender politics of aging /

Freezing fertility : : oocyte cryopreservation and the gender politics of aging / / Lucy van de Wiel.

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Analyzes how the possibility of egg freezing changes what it means to be fertile and to age in the 21st centuryWelcomed as liberation and dismissed as exploitation, egg freezing (oocyte cryopreservation) has rapidly become one of the most widely-discussed and influential new reproductive technologie...

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Superior document:Biopolitics: medicine, technoscience, and health in the twenty-first century series
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Wiel, Lucy van de,
Place / Publishing House:New York : : New York University Press,, [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Biopolitics (New York, N.Y.)
Physical Description:1 online resource (335 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Making Fertility Precarious: Egg Freezing and the Politicization of Reproductive Aging
  • 2. Freezing in Anticipation: Fertility Planning with Eggs for Later
  • 3. Frozen Eggs and the Financialization of Fertility: Distributing Reproductive Aging in the Reproductive- Industrial Complex
  • 4. Aging Embryos and Viable Rhythms: The Visualization and Commercialization of Time- Lapse Embryo Selection
  • 5. Postfertile Conceptions: Egg Freezing and the Reinvention of Older Motherhood
  • 6. Oocyte Futures: The Global Flow of Frozen Eggs
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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