Freezing Fertility: Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging

by Lucy Van de Wiel

Book Overview

Welcomed as liberation and dismissed as exploitation, egg freezing (oocyte cryopreservation) has rapidly become one of the most widely-discussed and influential new reproductive technologies of this century. In Freezing Fertility, Lucy van de Wiel takes us inside the world of fertility preservation--with its egg freezing parties, contested age limits, proactive anticipations and equity investments--and shows how the popularization of egg freezing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479817902
• ISBN13: 9781479817900
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"