Getting the Timing Right: Fertility Apps and the Temporalities of Trying to Conceive

Hamper, Josie

doi:10.1108/978-1-80071-733-620221013

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“…But research also points to their empowering potential of creating more self-knowledge and awareness (Andelsman, 2023;Homewood et al, 2020). For example, Hamper's (2020Hamper's ( , 2022 work shows how women in the UK use MFTAs to make sense of their fertile window by learning about their bodies through tracking data. Further, Lupton's work (2015aLupton's work ( , 2015b offers a broad research scope on various socially entangled practices of self-tracking, bodies, and data.…”

Section: Reproductive Temporalitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Temporalities of reproductive bodies do not only bring norms into being in terms of which moments in one's life reproductive potential should be acted upon; it also brings into being very normative ideas of reproductive cycles that everyday life becomes acted upon and structured around. MFTAs thereby introduce a more normative and formalized temporal frame to reproductive bodies (Hamper, 2020). In Barad's terms, coming into matter is a 'condensation of dispersed and multiple beingstimes, where the future and past are diffracted into now, into each moment'.…”

Section: Ecologies Of Becoming Fertilementioning

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Fertile Becoming: Reproductive Temporalities with/in Tracking Technologies

Reime,

Cohn,

Tsaknaki

2023

FemTech

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Through close analysis of fertility and menstrual cycle tracking apps, this contribution explores how reproductive bodies, and their temporalities are understood, made and reshaped with and through technologies. We rethink reproductive temporalities through the lens of Kafer's (2013) and Forlano's (2017) notion of queer/crip time to account for the different and individual temporalities of bodies. By tuning into the everyday rituals and temporalities that emerge when living with real-time data around sociocultural norms of reproduction (Forlano, 2017), we make visible how fertile bodies are in a constant state of becoming. Empirically, we home in on the processes of becoming or unbecoming fertile and engagements of self-tracking as well as practices of self-care by drawing on data inquired through digital ethnographic methods. To contextualize the analysis within broader, (sub-)cultural imaginaries of reproductive futures, we combine walkthroughs of apps (Light et al., 2018) with analysis of discussions and data-sharing practices on social network sites dedicated to fertility tracking and queer/non-binary experiences of reproduction.

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Section: Reproductive Temporalitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ecologies Of Becoming Fertilementioning

confidence: 99%

Fertile Becoming: Reproductive Temporalities with/in Tracking Technologies

Reime,

Cohn,

Tsaknaki

2023

FemTech

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Thomé

2023

Réseaux

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Les applications de suivi du cycle menstruel font partie des dispositifs de quantification de soi les plus utilisés aujourd’hui en France. En s’appuyant sur une revue de la littérature internationale et sur 21 entretiens avec des jeunes femmes, cet article vise à renseigner leur genèse ainsi que leurs usages contemporains. Après un retour sociohistorique permettant de situer ces applications à la fois dans la filiation des « méthodes naturelles » de contraception et de l’émergence de la « FemTech », il interroge le choix d’une application, les degrés d’intensité de son utilisation et les effets qu’elle peut avoir pour l’utilisatrice. L’article met en évidence l’importance paradoxalement secondaire de la fiabilité de l’application ainsi que de la sécurité des données. Il distingue deux types d’utilisation, restreinte et élargie, que l’âge et la position sociale contribuent à expliquer. Il renseigne l’émergence d’une « conscience menstruelle » à trois niveaux (description, interprétation, légitimation) chez les utilisatrices les plus assidues. À partir d’un objet relevant de la santé sexuelle et reproductive, il propose ainsi une contribution à la sociologie de la quantification et à celle des techniques.

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Getting the Timing Right: Fertility Apps and the Temporalities of Trying to Conceive

Cited by 2 publications

References 18 publications

Fertile Becoming: Reproductive Temporalities with/in Tracking Technologies

Fertile Becoming: Reproductive Temporalities with/in Tracking Technologies

Quantifier le corps menstrué

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