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The ability to decide if, when, and how often to reproduce is a human right, but infertility impairs the ability of some individuals and couples to realize this right. In this work, Bell explores the experience of infertility for women who do not fit neatly into the trope of infertility as a white, middle-class woman's problem. Using qualitative interview data, she considers the expectations placed upon low-income and non-white women, catalogs the stigma and social pressure they face, and pushes the reader to consider infertility not just from a strictly defined biomedical model, but from a social perspective, with focus on how gendered and racialized structural forces impact on the experience of infertility. What do the exclusion of some groups (e.g., by race, class, disability) from reproductive health statistics and their restricted access to infertility treatment tell us about who society thinks can and should reproduce?. [Extracted from the article] |
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