Abstract：
Recent decades have seen an increasing gap occurring between the \'desired\' and \'actual\' family size of middle-class and professional women. This situation of \'unrealised fertility\' and \'incomplete families\' carries implications at a population, but also couple and individual level. This paper explores how middle-class professional women make decisions about partnering and parenthood and how these are shaped by a contemporary neoliberal feminist discourse which articulates the possibility of \'having it all\' through engagement in careful life planning, appropriate self-investment, and by drawing on new technologies of reproductive biomedicine. Informed by semi-structured interviews with UK and US women conducted at two different points in time, it explores how they approach and experience the process of relationship formation in the face of age-related fertility decline. It also examines how the use of social egg freezing shape their romantic and family building expectations but also their interactions with (potential) partners. In doing so, it explores how gendered cultural dating scripts and unequal gender power relations shape the formation and progression of intimate relationships in a manner which can disempower women as they age. It therefore questions whether egg freezing may be the \'great equaliser\' that some have hoped.
摘要：
近几十年来，中产阶级和职业女性的“理想”和“实际”家庭规模之间的差距越来越大。这种“未实现的生育率”和“不完整的家庭”的情况对人口产生了影响，而且还包括夫妻和个人层面。本文探讨了中产阶级职业女性如何做出关于伴侣和父母身份的决定，以及当代新自由主义女权主义话语如何塑造这些决定，该话语阐明了通过参与仔细的人生规划来“拥有一切”的可能性，适当的自我投资，并利用生殖生物医学的新技术。通过在两个不同时间点对英国和美国女性进行的半结构化访谈，它探讨了面对与年龄相关的生育率下降，他们如何接近和体验关系形成的过程。它还研究了社交卵子冷冻的使用如何塑造他们的浪漫和家庭建设期望，以及他们与（潜在）伴侣的互动。在这样做的时候，它探讨了性别文化约会脚本和不平等的性别权力关系如何塑造亲密关系的形成和发展，以一种方式，可以剥夺女性年龄。因此，它质疑卵子冷冻是否可能是一些人希望的“伟大的均衡器”。
