Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

This book belongs in FemRes because it treats technology as a feminist problem of power, labor, embodiment, and knowledge, not as a neutral tool. For readers, it expands digital feminism beyond representation: Virginia Eubanks follows algorithmic governance in welfare, housing, and child protection to show how “efficiency” turns poor people into targets of screening and punishment.

It is especially useful alongside FemRes topics on AI ethics, data justice, digital labor, cyberfeminism, and design justice, where technical systems are read as social arrangements.