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Forty‐eight women with diverse backgrounds and conditions of infertility were interviewed to describe their personal experience in having been unable to conceive or carry a child to term. Analysis of 150 hours of interview data revealed that the constituent elements of the experience of infertility were ambiguity, temporality, and otherness. The major sources of variation in the infertility experience were race and class.
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