FemTech: Intersectional Interventions in Women’s Digital Health

This edited collection explores the intersection of gender and embodied computing in FemTech, highlighting access barriers and biometric surveillance in wearables, ingestibles, and embeddables marketed to women. It critiques the knowledge and experience produced through medical and cultural discourses regarding women's bodies and imagines alternative models to optimize technology for women's safety, accessibility, and inclusivity.

Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 24 December 2023
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore

This edited collection brings together cultural studies and Feminist Science and Technology Studies to provide a timely and exciting perspective on the emerging field of women's digital health. It delves into the intersection of gender and embodied computing, focusing on the access barriers and biometric surveillance present in wearables, ingestibles, and embeddables marketed to women, commonly known as "FemTech." While ovulation and fitness trackers, reproductive technologies, contraceptive microchips, and "smart" pills are among the most popular FemTech products, they only represent a small portion of the health concerns affecting women. This volume aims to explore FemTech within the framework of Feminist Science and Technology Studies, recognizing the interconnectedness of race, class, gender, ability, sexuality, and other social and cultural identities. By addressing the gaps in FemTech research and socio-cultural barriers to access, this volume critiques the knowledge and experience produced through medical and cultural discourses regarding women's bodies, highlighting the inequalities in women's digital health and envisioning alternative models that optimize technology for women in a safe, accessible, and inclusive manner.

Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789819956043
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023