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The Stigma of Involuntary Childlessness
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In this paper, I analyze the stigma associated with involuntary childlessness and compare the perceptions and behavior of physically infertile women and physically fertile women who are involuntarily childless. I also consider information management strategies developed to offset this stigma. These strategies include selective concealment, therapeutic and preventive disclosure, medical disclaimers, deviance avowal, and a process of practiced deception. I conclude that, although physically infertile women feel more stigmatized, physically fertile women manage information more actively to protect their husbands from the stigma associated with sexual dysfunction. Theoretically, I suggest that these women self-label infertility as discreditable or stigmatizing apart from any formal or informal response.
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- Authors
- Miall, C. E.
- Venue
- Social Problems
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 1986-04
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 268-282
- ISSN
- 0037-7791 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-8533
- OpenAlex
- W1983558622
- Cited by
- 274
- References
- 23
- FWCI
- 3.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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