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dc.contributor.authorSimonstein, Frida
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-25T08:50:39Z
dc.date.available2019-09-25T08:50:39Z
dc.date.created2008-12-16 06:55
dc.date.issued2008-07
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/171210
dc.description.abstractA recent article, explores the issues of choice, agency and gender as they relate to assisted reproductive technologies (RTs). The author of that article claims that counter-stories as ‘narratives of resistance’ may help see how women can reconcile a strong desire to have children with the desire ‘to remain authentic and whole’. While the narratives proposal may help to understand women’s choices, this approach becomes unhelpful where there is one cultural perception of women – the view of pro-natalism or mandatory motherhood – that reigns absolute; where all narratives influencing a woman’s decisions are exclusively ‘narratives of hope’; and where a pro-natalist culture has fully embraced IVF and has further entrenched it by legislation. In this setting, the societal and medical pressure on women is so high that resistance becomes almost impossible. In this context, it would be more effective to challenge present pro-natalist reproductive policies and medical reproductive advice.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherEubios Ethics Institute
dc.rightsWith permission of the license/copyright holder
dc.subjectreproductive technology
dc.subjectwoman
dc.subjectin-vitro fertilisation
dc.subject.otherBioethics
dc.titleOn Cultural Narratives, Fertility Medicine and Women’s Agency
dc.typeArticle
dc.source.journaltitleEubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics (EJAIB)
dc.source.volume18
dc.source.issue04
dc.source.beginpage118
dc.source.endpage123
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
refterms.dateFOA2019-09-25T08:50:39Z
ge.collectioncodeAA
ge.dataimportlabelGlobethics object
ge.identifier.legacyglobethics:3049561
ge.identifier.permalinkhttps://www.globethics.net/gel/3049561
ge.journalyear2008
ge.lastmodificationdate2019-02-11 19:44
ge.submissions1
ge.peerreviewedno
ge.setnameGlobeEthicsLib
ge.setspecglobeethicslib
ge.submitter.emailatanu.garai@gmail.com
ge.submitter.nameGarai, Atanu
ge.submitter.userid22203
ge.linkhttp://www.eubios.info/EJAIB72008.pdf


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