Nolwenn Bühler (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Since the 1970s, alarming discourses about declining fertility and the difficulties of balancing work and family have flourished in Western countries. Captured by the notion of the 'biological clock', they put women's reproductive age and the fertility decline to the centre of public and medical attention. Reproductive biomedicine constitutes a specific domain invested with hopes for technological and medical answers and a new market for fertility extension technologies, such as egg donation and social egg freezing. Addressing long-standing questions about the articulation of the biological...
Since the 1970s, alarming discourses about declining fertility and the difficulties of balancing work and family have flourished in Western countries....
