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Cryopreserving Jewish Motherhood: Egg Freezing in Israel and the United States
dc.contributor.authorBirenbaum‐carmeli, Daphna
dc.contributor.authorInhorn, Marcia C.
dc.contributor.authorVale, Mira D.
dc.contributor.authorPatrizio, Pasquale
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-05T15:07:51Z
dc.date.available2022-10-05 11:07:49en
dc.date.available2021-10-05T15:07:51Z
dc.date.issued2021-09
dc.identifier.citationBirenbaum‐carmeli, Daphna ; Inhorn, Marcia C.; Vale, Mira D.; Patrizio, Pasquale (2021). "Cryopreserving Jewish Motherhood: Egg Freezing in Israel and the United States." Medical Anthropology Quarterly 35(3): 346-363.
dc.identifier.issn0745-5194
dc.identifier.issn1548-1387
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/170266
dc.description.abstractOocyte cryopreservation (i.e., egg freezing) is one of the newest forms of assisted reproduction and is increasingly being used primarily by two groups of women: (1) young cancer patients at risk of losing their fertility through cytotoxic chemotherapy (i.e., medical egg freezing); and (2) single professionals in their late 30s who are facing age- related fertility decline in the absence of reproductive partners (i.e., elective egg freezing). Based on a binational ethnographic study, this article examines the significance of egg freezing among Jewish women in Israel and the United States. As they face the Jewish maternal imperative, these women are turning to egg freezing to relieve both medical and marital uncertainties. In both secular and religious Jewish contexts, egg freezing is now becoming naturalized as acceptable and desirable precisely because it cryopreserves Jewish motherhood, keeping reproductive options open for Jewish women, and serving as a protective self- preservation technology within their pronatalist social environments.
dc.publisherEmerald Publishing Limited
dc.publisherWiley Periodicals, Inc.
dc.subject.otheregg freezing
dc.subject.otherJewish
dc.subject.othercancer
dc.subject.otherfertility
dc.subject.othermotherhood
dc.titleCryopreserving Jewish Motherhood: Egg Freezing in Israel and the United States
dc.typeArticle
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dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelMedicine (General)
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelAnthropology
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelHealth Sciences
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciences
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Reviewed
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/170266/1/maq12643.pdf
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/170266/2/maq12643_am.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/maq.12643
dc.identifier.sourceMedical Anthropology Quarterly
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