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This Essay takes a critical view on the masculine dominance within Quantifies-Self community. Therefor Quantified Self will be connected with the Ancient Dietetics and the Bourgeois Discourse on Hygienic at the beginning of 20th century to show the (dis)continuities concerning the gender of the self-observing subject. It is shown that Quantified Self provides a potential for a new gendering of the traditionally female constructed field of self-controlled body-measurement by similarly satisfying Gayle Rubins “sameness taboo”.
Moreover this essay claims to consider Quantified Self with a greater interest in interdependencies, as the gender of the participants should not be regarded as independent of other factors such as social status.
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Schmechel, C. (2016). Calorie Counting or Calorie Tracking. In: Selke, S. (eds) Lifelogging. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-13137-1_15
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