通过数字健康技术实现自我赋权的故事：“女性科技”

IF 1.6 Q2 ECONOMICS

REVIEW OF SOCIAL ECONOMY Pub Date : 2021-12-28 DOI:10.1080/00346764.2021.2018027

Tereza Hendl, B. Jansky

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摘要

经期和生育追踪器等女性科技承诺，通过对身体的可靠了解和控制，以及对生殖健康的所有权，为用户赋权。然而，通过经期和生育应用程序赋予权力的概念值得仔细研究。基于对一系列“女性健康”应用推广材料的主题分析，我们探索了应用提供商承诺的授权类型，并指出了授权话语中的重大矛盾和紧张关系。在数字社会学和跨部门女权主义学术的基础上，我们观察到，推广许多健康应用程序的话语是基于排斥性本体论、规范性女性气质、认识上的不公正和异性恋的女性性观念，这破坏了这些数字健康技术的自由言论。

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Tales of self-empowerment through digital health technologies: a closer look at ‘Femtech’

Femtech technologies, such as period and fertility trackers, promise their users empowerment through reliable knowledge about and control over their bodies and ownership of their procreative health. However, the notion of empowerment through period and fertility apps deserves scrutiny. Based on a thematic analysis of a range of ‘female health’ app promotion materials, we explore the kind of empowerment promised by app providers and point towards significant contradictions and tensions in the discursive tales of empowerment. Building on digital sociology and intersectional feminist scholarship, we observe that the discourse promoting many of the health apps is grounded in exclusionary ontologies, normative femininity, epistemic injustice and heterosexist notions of female sexuality, which undermines the liberational rhetoric of these digital health technologies.

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REVIEW OF SOCIAL ECONOMY ECONOMICS-

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2.60

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10.00%

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期刊介绍： For over sixty-five years, the Review of Social Economy has published high-quality peer-reviewed work on the many relationships between social values and economics. The field of social economics discusses how the economy and social justice relate, and what this implies for economic theory and policy. Papers published range from conceptual work on aligning economic institutions and policies with given ethical principles, to theoretical representations of individual behaviour that allow for both self-interested and "pro-social" motives, and to original empirical work on persistent social issues such as poverty, inequality, and discrimination.