This article employs Foucauldian and feminist analytics to advance a critical approach to
wearable digital health-and activity-tracking devices. Following Foucault's insight that the …

Femtech technologies, such as period and fertility trackers, promise their users
empowerment through reliable knowledge about and control over their bodies and …

Recent years have witnessed an intensive growth of systems of measurement and an
increasing integration of data processes into various spheres of everyday life. From …

Period tracking is an increasingly widespread practice, and its emphasis is changing from
monitoring fertility to encompassing a more broad-based picture of users' health. Delving …

While much feminist science and technology studies (STS) has focused on science and
laboratories as sites of critical engagement, feminism and feminist theory have recognized …

Since World War II, the biological and technological have been fusing and merging in new
ways, resulting in the loss of a clear distinction between the two. This entanglement of …

Feminist scholars have long demonstrated how women are constrained through dieting
discourse. Today's scholars wrestle with similar themes, but confront a thornier question …

What does it mean to wear a routine? This article explores a number of implications for the
engagement of wearable fitness technology in everyday life. It straddles both a critical …

The recent proliferation of wearable self-tracking devices intended to regulate and measure
the body has brought contingent questions of controlling, accessing and interpreting …

Winner of the 2021 BPS Book Award: Academic Text category, this groundbreaking book
employs a transdisciplinary and poststructuralist methodology to develop the concept of …