Dear colleagues,
If you are interested in the intersection between STS and womens digital
health, particularly with regard to access, inclusion, and justice, please
consider joining the panel Who is FemTech For? at the upcoming Nordic STS
conference in Oslo (June 7-9, 2023).
https://www.sv.uio.no/tik/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences
/2023/nordic-sts/index.html
Abstract submission deadline: March 1, 2023
Panel Organiser: Dr Lindsay Balfour, Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry
University
Short Description:
This panel aims to explore FemTech within the context of Feminist Science and
Technology Studies (FTST), whereby the entanglements of race, class, gender,
ability, sexuality and other social and cultural identities are brought to the
fore. If STS is inherently the consideration of the creation, development, and
consequences of science and technology in their historical, cultural, and
social contexts, then this panel asks, to borrow in part from Sara Daz, what
role can technoscience play in the movements to achieve gender justice? and
how are the operations of power and privileged exacerbated and challenged
within the womens digital health milleu? (2020). In other words: Who is
FemTech for?
This panel, then, responds to gaps in womens access to self-monitored
technologies of wellbeing, and in consideration of intersectional
marginalisations within both the health and technology sectors where
racialized and low-income women suffer disproportionately. By addressing the
gaps in FemTech research and socio-cultural barriers to access, this panel
will critique the forms of knowledge and experience produced through medical
and cultural discourses regarding womens bodies to both highlight the
inequalities in womens digital health, and imagine alternative models which
optimise technology for women in a way that is safe, accessible, and
inclusive.
This panel will aim to run as more of a conversation with presentations that
address a particular challenge in FemTech (cost, accessibility, data privacy,
heternormativity, violence and risk, etc.) and generate lively discussion and
debate.
More information and abstract submission portal can be found here:
https://www.sv.uio.no/tik/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences
/2023/nordic-sts/index.html
Feel free to reach out directly as well, at Lindsay.Balfour@coventry.ac.uk
Dr. Lindsay Balfour
Assistant Professor
Research cluster: Postdigital Intimacies
Centre for Postdigital
Cultures
Coventry University
@LindsayAnneB |
LinkedIn
Recent work:
#TimesUp for Siri and Alexa: Sexual Violence and the Digital
Domestic
An Intersectional Analysis of Our Robotic Future (Review: Surrogate
Humanity)
Womens health could be so much more than period
trackers
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