ABSTRACT:Cultures around the world are replete with images of women as the epitome of love, kindness, patience, and similar virtues, owing to their ability to give birth. Consequently, those who cannot give birth due to medical conditions are stigmatized and made to feel inadequate and deviant. Although infertility is a gender-neutral health predicament, it is women who encounter severe abjuration. Cultural scripts that glorify childbearing and stigmatize infertility impact the afflicted adversely as they destabilize their identity and aggravate their suffering as a patient. Graphic medical narratives on infertility, such as Paula Knight's The Facts of Life (2017), Emily Steinberg's Broken Eggs (2014), and Phoebe Potts's Good Eggs (2010), reflect on these issues and, in the process, illuminate how infertility fractures women's identity in a pronatalist society. This essay explores three graphic pathographies on infertility through three major themes: pronatalism and the social construction of motherhood, the absolutism of science, and alternatives to motherhood. The essay argues that the use of comics and graphic medicine, by combining visual and conceptual modes, presents the social, personal, and medical features of infertility with new force and urgency.

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不孕不育漫画和图形医学

摘要：世界各地的文化都充斥着女性形象，因为她们具有生育能力，因此她们是爱、善良、耐心和类似美德的缩影。因此，那些因医疗条件而不能生育的人会受到污名，并感到自己的不足和不正常。尽管不孕不育是一种不分性别的健康困境，但遇到严重拒绝的却是女性。美化生育和污名化不孕症的文化脚本对受苦者产生不利影响，因为他们破坏了他们的身份并加剧了他们作为患者的痛苦。关于不孕症的图解医学叙事，例如 Paula Knight 的 The Facts of Life (2017)、Emily Steinberg 的 Broken Eggs (2014) 和 Phoebe Potts 的 Good Eggs (2010)，反思这些问题，并在此过程中阐明不孕症如何使女性骨折' 在生育社会中的身份。本文通过三个主要主题探讨了关于不孕症的三种图形病理学：生育主义和母性的社会建构、科学的绝对主义和母性的替代品。这篇文章认为，漫画和图形医学的使用，通过结合视觉和概念模式，以新的力量和紧迫性呈现不孕症的社会、个人和医学特征。