Intersex, infertility and the future: early diagnoses and the imagined life course.
Intersex, infertility and the future: early diagnoses and the imagined life course.
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DOI：
10.1111/1467-9566.12990
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Charlotte Jones
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作者：
Charlotte Jones
不孕症通常被认为是一种在成年后尝试怀孕失败后医学上确定的状态。本文发展现有的文献，说明如何目前的概念化不孕症不纳入全方位的经验。根据详细、反思的日记和对五名参与者的深入采访，我探讨了具有不同性别特征（VSC）或双性人特征的女性如何经历和理解不孕症。我认为，更多的考虑需要适用于双性人和不孕不育状态的情况下，可能会收到在婴儿期，儿童期或青春期，之前或之外的尝试怀孕，并没有接受生育治疗。通过对时间和未来的讨论，本文旨在探讨未来的愿景如何与不孕状态结合，并结合生命早期的非典型性状态。这篇论文指出，早期不育会阻碍一些双性儿童和年轻人的抱负。然而，不孕症并不被理解为是病理性的或在每个受影响的人的一生中始终令人望而却步。双性女性对未来可能没有孩子的概念是多样的、复杂的、矛盾的，在某些情况下，在整个生命过程中是过渡性的。
Infertility is often recognised as a status that is medically identified in adulthood after unsuccessful attempts to conceive. This paper develops existing literature by illustrating how current conceptualisations of infertility do not incorporate a full range of experiences. Drawing on detailed, reflective diaries and in-depth interviews with five participants, I explore how infertility is experienced and understood by women with variations of sex characteristics (VSCs) or intersex traits. I argue that greater consideration needs to be applied to intersex people and the circumstances of an infertility status that may be received in infancy, childhood or adolescence, before or outside of attempts to conceive, and without undergoing fertility treatment. Through discussions of time and futurity, this paper seeks to explore how visions of the future coalesce with an infertile status that is received in combination with an atypical sex status early in life. The paper indicates that early infertility can hinder some intersex children and young people's ambitions. However, infertility is not understood to be pathological or consistently prohibitive throughout the lives of everyone affected. Intersex women's conceptions of a potentially childless future are varied, complex, ambivalent and, in some cases, transitional throughout the life course.