Freezing fertility: Oocyte cryopreservation and the gender politics of ageing

Thesis (complete)

Front matter

Acknowledgements

Introduction – Ex Ovo Omnia

1. For whom the clock ticks: Egg freezing and reproductive ageing in Dutch and British newspapers

2. The time of the change: The medicalisation of menopause and reproductive ageing

3. Freezing in anticipation: Bodies of futurity and eggs for later

4. Imaging the frozen egg: OC’s cellular portraiture

5. Embryonic entanglements: Cellular ageing in time-lapse embryo imaging

6. Mothers on the edge of time: Egg freezing and the reinvention of older motherhood

7. Oocyte futures: The global flow of frozen eggs

Conclusion

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