Conceiving Time? Women who do or do not conceive.

Sarah Earle; Gayle Letherby

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.00546.x

Conceiving Time? Women who do or do not conceive.

Sarah Earle^*
, Gayle Letherby

^*Corresponding author for this work

The Open University

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Abstract

This article explores the importance of time for an understanding of women's experiences of reproductive identity. In order to do this we draw on data from two separate qualitative research projects. The first project is concerned with the experiences of conception, pregnancy, childbirth and early motherhood in primagravidae, whilst the second focuses on the experiences of individuals (especially women) who defined themselves (at the time of the fieldwork, or some time previously) as 'involuntarily childless' and/or 'infertile'. These two areas are usually treated as separate; this article, however, explores similarities between them in terms of time and medicalisation. Our central concern, then, is with exploring the similarities of experience for women who do or do not conceive.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	233-250
Number of pages	0
Journal	Sociology of Health and Illness
Volume	29
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2007.00546.x
Publication status	Published - Mar 2007

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Keywords

Adult
Aged
Attitude to Health
Body Image
Female
Fertility
Fertilization
Humans
Infertility
Interviews as Topic
Middle Aged
Perception
Pregnancy
Reproductive Medicine
Sociology
Medical
Time Factors
Women's Health
Women's Rights

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