Abstract
The relationship between gender and technology has long been the attention of feminist scholars and activists, in terms of both constituting gender (Wajcman, 2004, 2007) and, more recently, the potential of digital platforms in disseminating feminist ideas (Baer, 2016). As technology has become increasingly part of our everyday lives, questions have been raised about the impact this has on gender inequalities and the possibilities for challenging injustice. One notable area in which everyday leisure practices are being transformed by the digital is through the recent proliferation of digital technologies designed for health and fitness.
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According to Fox (2017: 139), this shift from entities to relationalities suggests a focus towards ‘towards the capacities to do, think and feel thereby produced in bodies and collectivities of bodies. Concomitantly, this shift from an agentic human to flows of “affect” in assemblages acknowledges that things, organisations, social formations, and concepts contribute to social production as much as—if not more than—human bodies/subjects.’
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Rich, E. (2019). Making Gender and Motherhood Through Pedagogies of Digital Health and Fitness Consumption: ‘Soon It Made Us More Active as a Family’. In: Parry, D.C., Johnson, C.W., Fullagar, S. (eds) Digital Dilemmas. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95300-7_10
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