This conceptual review explores empowerment threats in femtech, highlighting regulatory gaps and justice issues in women's health.
Femtech is a rapidly expanding industry consisting of consumer digital health technologies designed to enhance women’s health. The recent rise of critical femtech scholarship reflects growing concerns about the industry’s promises of user empowerment in the face of ill-equipped regulatory and legal frameworks, shifting reproductive rights legislation, and the structural need for improved women’s healthcare. Using a diffractive reading approach, this article offers a critical conceptual (re)view of such literature and traces how these threats to empowerment are situated across disciplinary perspectives, raising timely concerns about digital and commercial influences on health, reproductive justice, and menstrual justice.
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