Le devoir d’enfant à l’ère de la médicalisation : stigmates, retournements et brèches en procréation assistée

This contribution focuses on the social treatment of the childbearing duty, the stigma it can produce, as well as the paradoxes of this duty. In every society, women escaping the reproductive injunction are stigmatized in a peculiar way. Currently, the medical institution plays a major role in this...

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Main Author: Laurence Tain
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Genre, Sexualité et Société 2009-07-01
Series:Genre, Sexualité et Société
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/gss/167
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description This contribution focuses on the social treatment of the childbearing duty, the stigma it can produce, as well as the paradoxes of this duty. In every society, women escaping the reproductive injunction are stigmatized in a peculiar way. Currently, the medical institution plays a major role in this process.  Observing medicalized trajectories is a potent prism through which the mechanisms and the contradictions of this social regulation can be grasped. Many women do not follow the reproductive heterosexuality norm along their life course – women who don’t want children, lesbian women who want to have children -- This article offers to study the trajectories of women resorting to reproductive technologies. First, we show how the medical institution contributes to stigmatize infertility and to anticipate medical resort. Nethertheless, if some trajectories obey these injunctions, others desobey to them. Consequently, gaps are being opened in the reproductive heterosexuality norm. We could then wonder which social or national properties  explain the obedience to these norms.
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Le devoir d’enfant à l’ère de la médicalisation : stigmates, retournements et brèches en procréation assistée
Genre, Sexualité et Société
reproductive technology
gender
sterility
assisted reproduction
infertility
in vitro fertilization
title Le devoir d’enfant à l’ère de la médicalisation : stigmates, retournements et brèches en procréation assistée
title_full Le devoir d’enfant à l’ère de la médicalisation : stigmates, retournements et brèches en procréation assistée
title_fullStr Le devoir d’enfant à l’ère de la médicalisation : stigmates, retournements et brèches en procréation assistée
title_full_unstemmed Le devoir d’enfant à l’ère de la médicalisation : stigmates, retournements et brèches en procréation assistée
title_short Le devoir d’enfant à l’ère de la médicalisation : stigmates, retournements et brèches en procréation assistée
title_sort le devoir d enfant a l ere de la medicalisation stigmates retournements et breches en procreation assistee
topic reproductive technology
gender
sterility
assisted reproduction
infertility
in vitro fertilization
url https://journals.openedition.org/gss/167
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