Fertility treatment and organizational discourses of the non‐reproductive female body
Fertility treatment and organizational discourses of the non‐reproductive female body
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非生育女性身体的生育治疗和组织话语
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2021
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J. Brewis
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Lucia Cervi;J. Brewis
本文通过探索提供生育治疗的组织（如私人诊所和生育杂志）如何话语（重新）构建非生殖女性身体，从而有助于讨论组织，身体和生殖之间的交叉点。组织研究忽略了非生殖体，尽管有相当数量的关于生殖体的研究，特别是怀孕和母亲的身体。同样，这些讨论侧重于雇佣关系-例如，妇女如何被禁止在工作中管理自己的身体-而我们集中在市场上，或生育治疗领域，以及其中的组织。这些组织虽然专注于复制身体，但也影响、复合和挑战他们所涉及的身体的概念。通过对英国生育组织制作的文本的批判性话语分析，我们提出了三种关于非生殖女性身体的话语，这些话语（重新）产生了主体位置，其中生殖的缺失是一种医学状况，一种情感上的痛苦经历，以及需要照顾的东西。我们的论证表明，这些文本是如何作为福柯式的政府生命权力的一种形式运作的，强调了它们是如何为不育的女性主体欢呼的。
This paper contributes to debates on the intersections between organisations, the body and reproduction by exploring how the non-reproductive female body is discursively (re)constructed by organisations which provide fertility treatment, such as private clinics and fertility magazines. Organisation studies has neglected the non-reproductive body, despite a fair amount of research on its reproductive counterpart, especially pregnant and maternal bodies. Equally, these discussions privilege the employment relationship – e.g., how women are enjoined to manage their bodies at work – whereas we concentrate on the marketplace, or the field of fertility treatment, and the organisations therein. These organisations, while focused on reproducing bodies, also influence, compound, and challenge notions of the bodies they are involved with. Through a Critical Discourse Analysis of texts produced by UK fertility organisations, we present three discourses of the non-reproductive female body that (re)generate subject positions where the absence of reproduction is a medical condition, an emotionally distressing experience, and something that needs to be cared for. Our argument suggests how the texts can operate as a form of Foucauldian governmental biopower, emphasising how they hail the infertile female subject.