ABSTRACT 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.

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印度的数据化身体项目：Femtech 和数字时代生殖监测的兴起

摘要本文探讨了为女性身体设计的数字自我跟踪技术的发展行业，通常称为 femtech。它主要关注生殖技术和应用，将女性科技置于将女性排除在医学和临床试验研究之外的更广泛历史背景下。将 femtech 视为数据化的身体项目，我们认为，尽管这些数字生殖健康技术通过量化生殖提高了用户的自我认知能力，但它们引发了对生殖监测问题的担忧。这些数据化的身体项目不仅是技术驱动的，而且还受到新自由主义精神的影响，在这种精神中，国家与企业的关系将健康管理的责任转移到参与性的个体形式上，被认为是“赋予权力，”，同时利用这些用户生成的数据进行控制和获利。最后，我们认为，仅仅在所有健康领域代表女性并获取女性身体数据不足以解决性别在健康中的更大问题。需要一种更细粒度的方法来解决利用女性身体谋取利润的结构性嵌入以及这些技术所围绕的男性认识论。