Bloating, Heavy Legs, and Fatigue

Sport, Menstrual Tracking Apps and More-Than-Hormonal Bodies

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2387249
AutoresAnna Friedlander (0000-0002-1781-8058, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand), H Thorpe (0000-0002-2420-1929, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand), Monica Nelson (0000-0002-2964-9212, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand), Andrea Gibbons (0009-0004-5902-2527, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand)
Año2024
Volumen32
Número3-4
Páginas298-310
Fecha de publicación2024-12-10
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/10778004241301035
OpenAlexW4405242355
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas61

A wide array of menstrual tracking apps, including a small number of sport-specific menstrual tracking apps, are increasingly being used by athletes and coaches to better understand the complex relationships between hormonal cycles and sporting performance. To date, however, there have been few qualitative inquiries into the affects, affordances, and knowledge produced by entanglements of these apps and their users. In this article, we present a collaborative feminist experiment in ethnography, in which the authors, from a range of academic, sporting, and cultural positionalities, document, discuss, and creatively write our experiences of the sporting-menstrual tracking app FitrWoman, using both theoretically informed and poetic ways of knowing. We find that hormones emerged as the primary conduit of connection, transmission, sensing, and knowing in app-user intra-actions, which we variously experienced as alignments, misalignments, and discordances, as our understandings and experiences of menstruating, hormonal bodies collided, merged, and conflicted

Affordance · Athletes · Cognitive psychology · Ethnography · Menstruation · Pedagogy · Physical therapy · Sociology · Tracking (education · Trainer · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sports, Gender, and Society