Misconception : Social Class and Infertility in America /

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Despite the fact that, statistically, women of low socioeconomic status (SES) experience greater difficulty conceiving children, infertility is generally understood to be a wealthy, white woman's issue. In Misconception, Ann V. Bell overturns such historically ingrained notions of infertility b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bell, Ann V., 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Rutgers University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social classes.
Poor women.
Infertility, Female.
Fertility, Human.
Women.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
MEDICAL > Gynecology & Obstetrics.
Femmes.
Infertilite feminine.
Classes sociales > États-Unis.
Femmes pauvres > États-Unis.
Fecondite humaine > États-Unis.
Infertilite feminine > États-Unis.
Women
Social Class
Poverty
Infertility, Female
Social classes > United States.
Poor women > United States.
Fertility, Human > United States.
Infertility, Female > United States.
United States.
United States
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "That's what I'm supposed to be" : why women want to mother
  • "I'm good at the job" : how women achieve "good" motherhood
  • "Getting pregnant's a piece of cake" : trying to mother
  • "Socioeconomically it would be much more difficult" : the lived experience of infertility
  • "Whatever gets me to the end point" : resolving infertility
  • "So what can you do?" : Coping with infertility
  • Conclusion : (re)conceiving infertility.

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