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This article examines the growing industry of digital self-tracking technologies designed for the female body, popularly known as femtech. Focusing mainly on reproductive technologies and applications, it situates femtech within the broader historical context of excluding women from research on medicine and clinical trials. Approaching femtech as datafied body projects, we argue that, even though these digital reproductive health technologies enhance user capacity for self-knowledge by quantifying reproduction, they raise apprehensions about issues of reproductive surveillance. These datafied body projects are not only technology-driven but are also shaped by the neo-liberal ethos in which the state-corporate nexus shifts the onus of health management to participatory individuated forms, deemed as “empowering,” while simultaneously harnessing this user-generated data for control and profit. Finally, we argue that merely representing women in all spheres of health and procuring data on the female body is insufficient to address the larger concerns of gender in health. A more close-grained approach that addresses the structural embeddedness of exploitation of the female body for profit and the masculine epistemology around which these technologies are built is necessary.
This article examines the growing industry of digital self-tracking technologies designed for the female body, popularly known as femtech. Focusing mainly on reproductive technologies and applications, it situates femtech within the broader historical context of excluding women from research on medicine and clinical trials. Approaching femtech as datafied body projects, we argue that, even though these digital reproductive health technologies enhance user capacity for self-knowledge by quantifying reproduction, they raise apprehensions about issues of reproductive surveillance. These datafied body projects are not only technology-driven, but are also shaped by the neoliberal ethos in which the state-corporate nexus shifts the onus of health management to participatory individuated forms, deemed as “empowering,” while simultaneously harnessing this user-generated data for control and profit. Finally, we argue that merely representing women in all spheres of health and procuring data on the female body is insufficient to address the larger concerns of gender in health. A more close-grained approach that addresses the structural embeddedness of exploitation of the female body for profit and the masculine epistemology around which these technologies are built is necessary.
इस लेख का विषय है महिलाओ केशरीर केलिएबनी डिजिटल सेल्फ ट्रैकिंग टेक्नोलॉजी जिसेआम तौर पर फेमटेक कहतेहैं। प्रजनन तकनीकोंऔर उनकेइस्तेमाल पर केंद्रित, यह लेख फेमटेक को औरतों केचिकित्सा अनुसंधान और क्लीनिकल परिक्षण सेऐतिहासिक बहिष्करण में स्थित करता है। हम फेमटेक को डाटाफिएड शरीर परियोजना की नज़र सेदेखते हुए यह तर्क करतेहैं कि यह डिजिटल जनन स्वास्थय उद्योग कलाए, उपयोगकर्ता केआत्म ज्ञान की क्षमता को बढ़ाने केसाथ साथ प्रजनन निगरानी की आशंकाओं को भी बढ़ाती हैं। यह डाटाफिएड शरीर परियोजनाएप्रौद्योगिकी नियंतरित होन ् े के साथ साथ नव-उदारवाद से भी प्रभावित हैं जिसकेअंतर्गत सरकार-व्यापार का अन्तर्सम्बन्ध, स्वास्थ्य प्रबंध की ज़िम्मेदारी सहभागी व्यक्तिगत विधियों पर डाल देता है, जिन्हे सशक्तिकरण का मार्ग माना जाता है। इसकेअलावा इस उपयोगकर्ता उत्पन्न जानकारी का इस्तेमाल नियंत्रण और मुनाफेकेलिएकिया जाता है। यह लेख विवेचन करता है की सिर्फ स्वास्थ्य केअनेक क्षेत्रो में महिलाओ का प्रतिनिधित्व और उनकेशरीर पर जानकारी जमा करना, स्वास्थय में व्यापक लैंगिक समस्याओ को जाननेऔर हल करनेकेलिएकाफी नहीं है। बल्कि एक नज़दीकी, सघन दृष्टिकोण की आवश्यकता है, जो मुनाफेकेलिएऔरत केशरीर केशोषण की संरचनात्मक अंतःस्थापितता और इन प्रौद्योगिकीयो की पौरुष ज्ञान-मीमांसा की जांच करे।
키워드열기/닫기 버튼
फेमटेक, आत्म ट्रैकिंग, प्रजनन, निगरानी, डेटा सुरक्षा, भारत
