a School of Sociology, College of Arts and Social Sciences , Australian National University , Canberra , ACT , Australia.
b Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery , Mayo Clinic , Rochester , Minnesota, USA.
Cult Health Sex. 2018 Sep;20(9):992-1005. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2017.1404643. Epub 2017 Nov 29.
The promise of egg freezing for women's fertility preservation entered feminist debate in connection with medical and commercial control over, and emancipation from, biological reproduction restrictions. In this paper we explore how women negotiate and make sense of the decision to freeze their eggs. Our analysis draws on semi-structured interviews with 16 women from the Midwest and East Coast regions of the USA who froze their eggs. Rather than freezing to balance career choices and 'have it all', the women in this cohort were largely 'freezing for love' and in the hope of having their 'own healthy baby'. This finding extends existing feminist scholarship and challenges bioethical concerns about egg freezing by drawing on the voices of women who freeze their eggs. By viewing egg freezing as neither exclusively liberation nor oppression or financial exploitation, this study casts egg freezing as an enactment of 'responsible' reproductive citizenship that 'anticipates coupledom' and reinforces the genetic relatedness of offspring.
卵子冷冻技术为女性生育力保存带来的希望，引发了女权主义者对医学和商业对生育的控制以及对生育限制的解放的讨论。本文探讨了女性如何协商并理解冷冻卵子的决定。我们的分析基于对来自美国中西部和东海岸地区的 16 名冷冻卵子的女性进行的半结构化访谈。这些女性冷冻卵子并不是为了平衡职业选择和“拥有一切”，而是主要是为了“为爱冷冻”，并希望拥有“自己健康的宝宝”。这一发现扩展了现有的女权主义学术研究，并通过援引冷冻卵子的女性的声音，挑战了关于卵子冷冻的生物伦理问题。通过将卵子冷冻既视为解放，也不视为压迫或经济剥削，本研究将卵子冷冻视为一种“负责任的”生殖公民身份的表现，这种身份“预期夫妻关系”，并加强了后代的遗传关系。
