Breaking the ice: Young feminist scholars of reproductive politics reflect on egg freezing

Author:

Cattapan Alana,Hammond Kathleen,Haw Jennie,Tarasoff Lesley A.

Abstract

While proponents of social (i.e., nonmedical) egg freezing argue that it is liberating for women, opponents contest that the technology provides an individualist solution to a social problem. This article comprises personal and academic reflections on the debate on social egg freezing from four young women studying reproductive technologies. We challenge the promotion of social egg freezing as an empowering option for women and question cultural assumptions about childbearing, the disclosure of risk, failures to consider sexual diversity and socioeconomic status, and the expansion of the market in reproductive tissues.

Publisher

University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)

Subject

Philosophy,Health(social science),Gender Studies

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