Missed period? The significance of period-tracking applications in a post-<i>Roe</i> America

Kelly, Bridget G.; Habib, Maniza

doi:10.1080/26410397.2023.2238940

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“…Importantly, feminist scholars (Hendi and Jansky, 2022) have argued that the framings of these apps are underpinned by epistemic injustice as well as heterosexist and normative ideas of appropriate femininity and sexuality. The proliferation of period trackers and other biopedagogical tools targeting reproductive and menstrual processes also comes at a time when reproductive rights are being persistently eroded, and the potential for this data to put their users’ privacy and bodily autonomy at risk is very real (Kelly and Habib, 2023).…”

Section: Understanding Menstruation In Digital and Social Media Spacesmentioning

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Understanding digital period pedagogies: Exploring how young people navigate menstruation through embodied experience

Clark,

Southerton

2024

Health Education Journal

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Objective: This paper examines the ways in which young people in Eastern Canada learn about menstruation and construct personal period pedagogies through embodied experiences and encounters with digital and social media. Design: A qualitative exploratory approach was undertaken to elicit the stories and voices of young people who menstruate. Menstruation is conceptualised as a deeply bio-social phenomenon and knowledge was understood as created, contested and negotiated across settings and contexts. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine university students (ages 19–23 years) in Eastern Canada as part of a pilot project informing a broader study about menstruation education and menstrual experiences. To be eligible for inclusion, participants were required to have experienced one menstrual cycle in the past 6 months and engaged with social media at least once per week. Setting: This project was conducted in a small University town in Maritime Canada. Results: Young people interviewed learned about menstruation through knowledges assembled from conversations family members and peers, educational and medical settings and content encountered on social and digital media. Three themes were developed from the analysis. The first two capture how young people actively try to ‘Fill in the Gaps’ left by conventional menstrual education approaches and therefore turn to informal and narrative knowledges circulating on social media in efforts to answer the question ‘Am I normal’. The third theme describes how participants actively ‘Balance Authority and Intimacy’ when seeking menstrual information that resonates with their embodied experiences. Conclusion: Substantial gaps exist in the menstrual knowledges available to young people, particularly in relation to the embodied and emotional dimensions of having and managing a period. Digital and social media have the capacity to contribute to personal period pedagogies by acknowledging and exploring aspects of menstruation not adequately addressed in other contexts.

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Section: Understanding Menstruation In Digital and Social Media Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding digital period pedagogies: Exploring how young people navigate menstruation through embodied experience

Clark,

Southerton

2024

Health Education Journal

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“… 18 As Kelly and Habib in their Commentary in this series point out, data and privacy around fertility apps have increasingly been called into question in a post-Roe America. 19 …”

Section: Srhr and Bodily Autonomy In A Digital Worldmentioning

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Sexual and reproductive health and rights and bodily autonomy in a digital world

Khosla,

Mishra,

Singh

2023

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters

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O’Brien

2024

Palgrave Critical Studies in Human Rights and Criminology

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Missed period? The significance of period-tracking applications in a post-Roe America

Cited by 7 publications

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Understanding digital period pedagogies: Exploring how young people navigate menstruation through embodied experience

Understanding digital period pedagogies: Exploring how young people navigate menstruation through embodied experience

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