TY - GEN
T1 - Parting the Red Sea
T2 - 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019
AU - Lazar, Amanda
AU - Su, Norman Makoto
AU - Bardzell, Jefrey
AU - Bardzell, Shaowen
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Aditi Shankar for assistance with early stages of this research and Eun Kyoung Choe, Anne Marie Piper, Jordan Boyd-Graber, and the reviewers and ACs for thoughtful feedback on the paper. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under awards 1513604 and 1816145.
PY - 2019/5/2
Y1 - 2019/5/2
N2 - Menopause is a major life change afecting roughly half of the population, resulting in physiological, emotional, and social changes. To understand experiences with menopause holistically, we conducted a study of a subreddit forum. The project was informed by feminist social science methodologies, which center knowledge production on women’s lived experiences. Our central fnding is that the lived experience of menopause is social: menopause is less about bodily experiences by themselves and more about how experiences with the body become meaningful over time in the social context. We fnd that gendered marginalization shapes diverse social relationships, leading to widespread feelings of alienation and negative transformation — often expressed in semantically dense fgurative language. Research and design can accordingly address menopause not only as a women’s health concern, but also as a matter of facilitating social support and a social justice issue.
AB - Menopause is a major life change afecting roughly half of the population, resulting in physiological, emotional, and social changes. To understand experiences with menopause holistically, we conducted a study of a subreddit forum. The project was informed by feminist social science methodologies, which center knowledge production on women’s lived experiences. Our central fnding is that the lived experience of menopause is social: menopause is less about bodily experiences by themselves and more about how experiences with the body become meaningful over time in the social context. We fnd that gendered marginalization shapes diverse social relationships, leading to widespread feelings of alienation and negative transformation — often expressed in semantically dense fgurative language. Research and design can accordingly address menopause not only as a women’s health concern, but also as a matter of facilitating social support and a social justice issue.
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U2 - 10.1145/3290605.3300710
DO - 10.1145/3290605.3300710
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85067594214
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 4 May 2019 through 9 May 2019
ER -