Why Do Women Gain Their Identities?

Secondly, due to the negative stigma that women face they turn to alternative ways in order to satisfy the societal and cultural expectations and gain their identities. “Identities are multiple, feminist recognize that each of us can appreciate multiple aspects of our identity, identities include the many social categories we use to define ourselves” (Bromley 47). When it comes to identity, infertile women can be characterized as unable bodies. These women believe that they have lost their identity and in order to gain the ability to reproduce children these women turn to extremely risky and costly ways to be able to give birth. It is known that “for many women infertility also carries a hidden stigma borne of shame and secrecy. Others obsessively
This states that because women are too devastated due to their physical inability they are influenced by the stigmas caused by society in a way that they are willing to do whatever they can even if it causes them debt, pain, or effects their mental health. These treatments are not only costly but are also risky which can affect women in a painful way and cannot always ensure to have a positive outcome. A question that is constantly asked is “why do some women consume by the desire to give birth to a child, even to the detriment of their own health, marriage and financial status?” (Whiteford & Lois 27). The answer to this question could be that if women do not comply with the norms set up for them, they are deemed as deficient. The two main technologies that women turn to are known as the assisted reproductive technology (ART). One of the common technology that many infertile women use is the in vitro fertilization technology this allows a woman’s eggs to be fertilized directly by sperm outside the woman’s body, this is done without the need for an egg or sperm to be passed through a blocked tube. Whereas, the assisted reproductive technology is