When IVF Fails: Feminism, Infertility and the Negotiation of Normality

by Karen Throsby

Book Overview

In spite of the fact that almost eighty percent of all IVF cycles are unsuccessful, the dominant representations of the technology are of its success. Based on extensive interviews with women and couples who have undergone IVF unsuccessfully and who have since stopped treatment, and taking an overtly feminist approach, the book explores the ways in which IVF failure is experienced and accounted for. The book argues that IVF failure and the end of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403935548
• ISBN13: 9781403935540
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.8"