FemTech : intersectional interventions in women's digital health / Lindsay Balfour, editor.
This edited collection draws from cultural studies and Feminist Science and Technology Studies to offer a timely and exciting intervention into the growing field of women⁰́₉s digital health. It explores the intersection of gender and embodied computing, with particular attention to access barriers a...
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[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction - Lindsay Anne Balfour
- Part I: Constructing a Critical FemTech Discourse
- 2. ⁰́₋Hysteria Under Watch: Biological Essentialism and Surveillance in Menstrual Tracking Applications⁰́₊ - Niktalia Jules
- 3. ⁰́₋Reinventing the Beauty Myth? FemTech⁰́₉s Cost to the Consumer⁰́₊ - Hannah Westwood
- 4. ⁰́₋Fertile Becoming: Reproductive Temporalities with/in Tracking Technologies⁰́₊ - Lara Reime, Marisa Cohn, Vasiliki Tsaknaki
- Part II: FemTech at the Margins
- 5. ⁰́₋One Size (doesn⁰́₉t) Fit All: A Closer Look at FemTech Apps and Datafied Reproductive Body Projects in India⁰́₊ - Paro Mishra, Ravinder Kaur, Shambhawi Vikram
- 6. ⁰́₋Artificial Intelligence and Reproducing Female Hairlessness as Social Stigma⁰́₊ - Georgia Roberts
- 7. ⁰́₋The Insta-Trainer: a study of how Instagram is used as a biopedagogical tool for health and wellbeing among young women in Qatar⁰́₊ - Sara Al Derham
- 8. ⁰́₋Hoop Dreams or Hoop Nightmares: Athletics, Fitness Tracking, and the Surveillance of the Black Body⁰́₊ - Rachel D. Roberson
- 9. ⁰́₋FemTech and taboo topics: Raaji as a tool for educating women in Pakistan⁰́₊ - Khawar Latif Khan and Farah Azhar
- 10. ⁰́₋FemTech in (and for) Emerging Markets: Narratives from Kenya⁰́₊ - Sarah Seddig - Part III: FemTech to (Over)come: ⁰́₋New Methods, Technoselves and Data Sovereignty⁰́₊
- 11. ⁰́₋Wearing Danger: Surveillance, Control and Quantified Healthism in American Medicine⁰́₊ - Rebecca Monteleone and Ally Day
- 12. ⁰́₋Between Liberation and Control: Mixing Methods to Investigate How users experience Menstrual Cycle Tracking Applications⁰́₊ - Lisa Stuifzand and Rik Smit
- 13. 13. ⁰́₋Using and Interpreting FemTech data: (Self-)knowledge, empowerment, and sovereignty⁰́₊ - Stefano Canali and Chris Hesselbein.