Naznaczanie społeczne i samonaznaczanie osób niepłodnych
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2003
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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The labeling and self-labeling of infertile women and men
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This paper explores community constructs of childlessness and how these constructs influence the
experience of infertility. The author presents stigma concept within the deviance literature and then the
social construction of reproduction as a moral issue and the most important part of marital life in country
with strong pronatalist ideology.
The main way of labeling is stereotyping infertile couples and to press childless people to become
a parent regardless of any costs. The author analyzes infertility experienced by women and men as
guilt, inadequacy, failure and pain treated as self-labeling. The last part of the paper presents the coping
strategies including selective disclosure, avoidance of exposure of own hidden disability or create the
“potential identity” of a biological parent in the struggle to reject possibly permanent infertile identity.
Findings are presented from psychological and sociological literature and the results of the author’s
study investigating marital roles in a sample of 140 childlessness married couples and from the study
exploring attitudes toward infertility among 135 high educated respondents.
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Roczniki Socjologii Rodziny, 2003, tom 15, s. 47-61
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0867-2059