FemTech
Autor: | Lindsay Anne Balfour |
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EAN: | 9789819956050 |
eBook Format: | |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 23.12.2023 |
Untertitel: | Intersectional Interventions in Women's Digital Health |
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Schlagworte: | women's digital health;health technologies;Feminist Cultural Studies;Feminist Science and Technology studies;inclusive design;media studies;surveillance technologies;wearable technologies;technoscience;women's health technologies;reproductive health; |
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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 women's digital health. It explores the intersection of gender and embodied computing, with particular attention to access barriers and the forms of biometric surveillance that operate in wearables, ingestibles, and embeddables marketed to women (the industry generally known as 'FemTech'). While the most utilized and profitable FemTech products include ovulation and fitness trackers, reproductive technologies, contraceptive microchips, and 'smart' pills, this only represents a fraction of health concerns affecting women.
Lindsay Anne Balfour is Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University. She is an experienced researcher, public speaker, and author with international experience in the non-profit sector and formal academia. Her research draws on Feminist Science and Technology Studies to examine the relationship between Feminine Technologies ('FemTech') and the forms of knowledge and experience produced by and about women's bodies. Her work offers wider benefits concerning the global health of women, such as those outlined in the UN Sustainable Development Goals regarding Women and Girls, and in particular targets focusing on sexual and reproductive health.