Overview
- Explores the human aspect of the infertility experience
- Offers academics, students and practitioners a resource with which to understand the emotional and social impacts of infertility and its treatment
- Seeks to show that infertility goes beyond a set of technological processes, but involves a struggle to redefine identity outside the traditional parameters of fertility and motherhood
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life (PSFL)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores an online support group for women who are infertile. Offering a close-up view of the women’s identities and emotions as they navigate the “roller-coaster” world of infertility, a range of questions are addressed: How do the women seek support? How do they offer support to one another? How are intimacies produced in the online space? Through narrative analysis of online journals and posts, the authors examine the impact of infertility on women’s perceptions of their bodies, their struggles with medical professionals, on their relationships with family and friends, and the challenges that a diagnosis of infertility presents to couples.
Infertility and Intimacy in an Online Community will appeal to social scientists, students from a range of health science disciplines, counsellors and health professionals, and women and men who are dealing with infertility.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Paulina Billett is Lecturer in Sociology at La Trobe University, Australia. Her current research centres on the experiences of women and explores issues of identity formation and lived experience.
Anne-Maree Sawyer is Lecturer in Sociology at La Trobe University, Australia. Her current research focuses on mental health policy and practice, emotion management and the micro-politics of care, and women’s narratives in retirement.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Infertility and Intimacy in an Online Community
Authors: Paulina Billett, Anne-Maree Sawyer
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-44981-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-44980-1Published: 11 October 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-44981-8Published: 29 September 2018
Series ISSN: 2731-6440
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6459
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 215
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Gender Studies, Digital/New Media