Baldwin Kylie
Centre for Reproduction Research, De Montfort University, UK.
Sociol Health Illn. 2018 Jun;40(5):859-873. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12728. Epub 2018 Mar 11.
As the average age of motherhood in many Western countries continues to rise, the spectacle of the older mother and the trend towards delayed childbearing has been the subject of much public debate and interest. Concurrent to this trend has been the development and use of a new form of fertility preservation - social egg freezing - a technology which by its very nature is meant to enable reproductive delay. Whilst previous studies have been able to provide insights into the complex and often interrelating structural, economic, and relational factors shaping the timing of motherhood, and in some cases women's use of social egg freezing, fewer studies have clearly demonstrated the way these factors themselves, as well as the accounts of individual women, can be seen as being shaped by ideological and discursive forces. Drawing on interviews with 31 users of social egg freezing this article will demonstrate how women's accounts of reproductive delay and use of egg freezing technology can be seen as being shaped by neoliberal rationality, heteronormativity, discourses of 'appropriate parenting' and gendered ideologies of parenthood.
随着许多西方国家的平均生育年龄持续上升，高龄母亲的现象以及生育延迟的趋势一直是公众广泛辩论和关注的焦点。与此同时，一种新型生育力保存方式——社会卵子冷冻——得到了发展和应用，这项技术本质上旨在实现生育延迟。尽管先前的研究能够深入了解影响生育时机的复杂且往往相互关联的结构、经济和关系因素，在某些情况下还能了解女性对社会卵子冷冻的使用情况，但较少有研究清楚地表明这些因素本身以及个别女性的叙述是如何受到意识形态和话语力量影响的。本文通过对31位社会卵子冷冻使用者的访谈，将展示女性对生育延迟和卵子冷冻技术使用的叙述如何被新自由主义理性、异性恋规范、“恰当育儿”话语以及生育的性别化意识形态所塑造。
