References
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- M. Berer. Living without children (editorial). Reproductive Health Matters. 7(13): 1999; 7–12.
- S. Franklin. Deconstructing ‘desperateness’: the social construction of infertility in popular representations of new reproductive technologies. M.V. McNeil, S. Yearly. The New Reproductive Technologies. 1990; Macmillan: Hampshire, 200–229.
- R. Gillespie. When no means no: disbelief, disregard and deviance as discourses of voluntary childlessness. Women’s Studies International Forum. 23(2): 2000; 223–234.
- D. Slater. Consuming Kodak. J. Spence, P. Holland. Family Snaps: The Meanings of Domestic Photography. 1991; Virago: London, 49–59.
- D. Birkett. The oracle of the ovary. Guardian (UK) Weekend. 2000; 34–37.
- Don Slater argues that family albums are edited and presented as a socially constructed, often ‘ideal’ image of the family to the outside world.
- In media stories on infertility this image is common. See for example a picture featuring Lord Robert Winston, UK infertility expert.