Vulnerability When Fecundity Fails: Infertility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in The Bridge
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2020
Publication Title
Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture
Abstract
Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) transformed the treatment of infertility in the Scandinavian welfare state. In the course of a forty-year history, Denmark has become an international leader in the proportion of babies born via ART. The third season of the Danish/Swedish television serial The Bridge (2015) includes a subplot of infertility and state responsiveness to the involuntarily childless, fertile donors and donor-conceived children. This chapter outlines milestones in medically assisted reproduction in Denmark and Sweden, including current policy differences around surrogacy, and considers those states and the consequences for their citizens in a literary vulnerability analysis of The Bridge informed by scholars Martha Fineman and Rachel Anne Fenton.
First Page
103
Last Page
125
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-37382-5
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Melissa Gjellstad. "Vulnerability When Fecundity Fails: Infertility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in The Bridge" (2020). Languages & Global Studies Faculty Publications. 2.
https://commons.und.edu/ll-fac/2
Comments
First published as:
Gjellstad, Melissa. “Vulnerability When Fecundity Fails: Infertility and Assisted Reproductive Technologies in The Bridge.” Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture, edited by Adriana Margareta Dancus et al., Springer International Publishing, 2020, pp. 103–25. Springer Link, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37382-5_6.