School of Government and Society, The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Yaffo, Israel.
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel.
Cult Health Sex. 2022 Nov;24(11):1575-1589. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2021.1981454. Epub 2021 Nov 2.
Over the past decade, egg freezing has evolved from being an experimental medical technology to become a commercial enterprise, accompanied by heated feminist debate. This study examined the views of Danish and Israeli female students regarding the financing of social egg freezing (SEF) (self, state, employer or family), and their correlation with country and feminist identity. A total of 569 female students (283 from Denmark and 286 from Israel) completed a questionnaire composed of closed and opened-ended questions on SEF financing under different circumstances (e.g. career advancement, lack of a partner, lack of money). The majority of female students in both countries supported SEF self-financing. They wanted to keep fertility choices in the private domain, in part by separating the bodies of women from the state and the employer. We conclude that SEF exemplifies a neoliberal and gendered responsibilisation of women's reproductive futurity, yet self-identification as a feminist was found to be correlated with stronger support for state financing. In contrast, we found no correlation between feminist identity and support for company-sponsored egg freezing. Our findings suggest a relationship between holding a feminist worldview and public policy preferences.
在过去的十年中，卵子冷冻技术已从一项实验性的医学技术发展成为一项商业企业，同时伴随着激烈的女权主义辩论。本研究调查了丹麦和以色列女学生对社会卵子冷冻（SEF）融资的看法（自我、国家、雇主或家庭），并探讨了这些看法与国家和女权主义身份的相关性。共有 569 名女学生（丹麦 283 名，以色列 286 名）完成了一份问卷，其中包括在不同情况下（如职业发展、缺乏伴侣、缺乏资金）进行 SEF 融资的封闭和开放式问题。来自这两个国家的大多数女学生都支持 SEF 自费。她们希望将生育选择保留在私人领域，部分原因是将女性的身体与国家和雇主分开。我们的结论是，SEF 体现了女性生殖未来的新自由主义和性别责任化，但自我认同为女权主义者与对国家融资的更强支持有关。相比之下，我们没有发现女权主义身份与支持公司赞助的卵子冷冻之间的相关性。我们的研究结果表明，持有女权主义世界观与公共政策偏好之间存在关系。
