Reimagining (Women’s) Health

Autor(en)

Os Keyes, Burren Peil, Rua Williams, Katta Spiel

Abstrakt

An ever-increasing body of work within HCI investigates questions of around "Women's Health" with the aim to disrupt the status quo of defaulting to an implicit norm of cis-male bodies. This laudable and feminist project has the potential to drastically improve the inclusivity and availability of health care. To explore how this research attends to gender, embodiment and identity, we conducted a critical discourse analysis of 17 publications explicitly positioning themselves as works concerned with "Women's Health". We find essentialised articulations of embodiment and gender, though little discussion on the intersections of race, class, sexuality and cultural contexts. Through two speculative designs, we illustrate potential responses to our analysis: The Shadow Zine, a reflection of self and the Compass, a token for community care.(1) Our work provides an opportunity to develop a broader frame of gender and health, one that centers (gendered) marginalised health by attending to the power structures of existing medical practices and norms.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Lehrer*innenbildung

Externe Organisation(en)

University of Washington, University of Florida, Gainesville

Journal

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Band

27

Anzahl der Seiten

42

ISSN

1073-0516

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1145/3404218

Publikationsdatum

09-2020

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504014 Gender Studies, 102013 Human-Computer Interaction, 509002 Disability Studies

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Human-computer interaction

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/37131909-622a-45a7-834e-aedbb1dfab2e