Knowing and Not Knowing about Fertility: Childless Women and Age-Related Fertility Decline

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Knowledge claims may play an essential role in reproductive decision-making, as individuals seek out, assess, reject, and use information about health fertility gathered from numerous sources. This paper focuses specifically on childless women’s self-perceptions of knowledge infertility age-related decline. How knowledgeable do women perceive themselves to be general, where they obtain this knowledge? Furthermore, how their own ability conceive, what attribute Data for project was through semi-structured interviews with 72 American women; the were inductively thematically coded using qualitative-analysis software. Childless assessed general confident, self-doubting, or novices, claimed multiple sources basis knowledge, including formal education training, media popular culture, family members peers. When assessing fecundity, tended rely two additional sources: biomedical diagnostics embodied knowledge. awareness average statistics decline did not necessarily translate individual self-knowledge bodies fecundity. Because based given unequal weight, raises questions authoritative knowledge—that is, that “counts” make decisions regarding future childbearing.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Anthropology & Aging

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['2374-2267']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/aa.2021.259