LEADER 04219nam 2200637I 450 001 9910821837103321 005 20210520103104.0 010 $a1-83909-746-9 010 $a1-83909-748-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000011937863 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6624212 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6624212 035 $a(OCoLC)1252424081 035 $a(UtOrBLW)9781839097485 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011937863 100 $a20210520h20212021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWhen reproduction meets ageing $ethe science and medicine of the fertility decline /$fNolwenn Bu?hler (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) 210 1$aBingley, England :$cEmerald Publishing,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (249 pages) 225 1 $aEmerald studies in reproduction, culture and society 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-83909-747-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aIntroduction: A question of age -- Chapter 1. Natures and cultures: divisions, entanglements and reconfigurations -- Chapter 2. The science of population and the quest for natural fertility: what age becomes in statistics -- Chapter 3. From age to ageing: arts and the science of 'old eggs' -- Chapter 4. When age matters: the statistics and biology of fertility decline in clinical choreographies -- Chapter 5. Ageing eggs, ageless mothers? Egg donation and the extension of fertility -- Chapter 6. Eggs for ever or the prospect of regeneration -- Conclusion: rethinking the materialisation of age through the lens of its political implications. 330 $aWhat is really biological about the "biological clock" and how can we account for its embodied reality from a feminist perspective? Addressing long-standing questions about the articulation of the biological and the social in the making of bodies and identities, this book questions the nature of reproductive ageing, a taken for granted "fact of life" at the core of reproductive biomedicine. Opening the black box of the biological, it makes a way between essentialism and constructivism with the aim of accounting for its materiality, while also illuminating its political implications. Since the 1970s, alarming discourses about declining fertility and the difficulties of balancing work and family have flourished in Western countries, putting women's reproductive age and the fertility decline to the centre of public and medical attention. Reproductive biomedicine constitutes a specific domain invested with hopes for technological and medical answers and a new market for fertility extension technologies, such as social egg freezing, is developing. By following the biological-social entanglements (or the naturecultures) of age-related infertility in the science and medicine of reproduction, this study explores how age materializes and documents what happens when reproduction meets ageing. Deeply transdisciplinary, it questions what is fixed about the biology of the fertility decline in a way which adds complexity to debates about the biomedicalization of reproductive ageing. 410 0$aEmerald studies in reproduction, culture and society. 606 $aFertility, Human$xSocial aspects 606 $aFamily planning 606 $aHuman reproduction$xAge factors 606 $aHuman reproductive technology 606 $aFertility, Human 606 $aFeminist theory 606 $aSocial Science$xFeminism & Feminist Theory$2bisacsh 606 $aMedical sociology$2bicssc 615 0$aFertility, Human$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aFamily planning. 615 0$aHuman reproduction$xAge factors. 615 0$aHuman reproductive technology. 615 0$aFertility, Human. 615 0$aFeminist theory. 615 7$aSocial Science$xFeminism & Feminist Theory. 615 7$aMedical sociology. 676 $a304.632 700 $aBu?hler$b Nolwenn$01698100 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821837103321 996 $aWhen reproduction meets ageing$94079324 997 $aUNINA