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Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Investigating welfare, homeless housing, and child protection, Virginia Eubanks shows how automation disguises austerity as neutral efficiency and subjects poor people to continuous surveillance.
- Data Justice
- Technology Critique
- Poverty and Justice
Black on Both Sides
From slavery, gynecological medicine, fugitivity, and public memory, C. Riley Snorton argues that blackness and transness are not parallel histories that later intersect but categories produced together in the United States.
- Trans Feminism
- Black Feminism
- Race and Gender
Transgender History
Susan Stryker offers a concise history of transgender movements in the United States from mid-twentieth-century organizing to contemporary politics.
- Trans Studies
- Social Movements
- Historical Context
Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
A groundbreaking philosophical analysis that redefines misogyny not as hatred of women, but as a system designed to police and punish women who challenge patriarchal norms. Manne provides a rigorous framework for understanding how misogyny functions as the enforcement branch of patriarchy.
- Patriarchy Critique
- Feminist Literary Criticism
- Cultural Critique
Technically Wrong
Sara Wachter-Boettcher analyzes how forms, product copy, defaults, and tech workplace cultures exclude gendered, racialized, and embodied difference from the “normal user.”
- Technology Critique
- Design Justice
- Gender Discrimination
Trap Door
This anthology examines the paradoxes of trans visibility in art, museums, media, performance, and cultural production.
- Trans Feminism
- Media Representation Critique
- Queer Theory
Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
Andrea Ritchie documents police violence against Black women, Indigenous women, immigrant women, sex workers, and trans women whose experiences are often erased from public narratives.
- Race and Gender
- Black Feminism
- Carceral Feminism
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Through her mother and uncles, Sujatha Gidla shows how caste, class, and patriarchy shaped the meaning of freedom across colonial rule, independence, and revolutionary politics.
- Dalit Feminism
- Caste and Gender
- Historical Context
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong - and the New Research That's Rewriting the StoryA ground-breaking investigation into how deep-seated gender bias has permeated the scientific community, leading to long-standing 'scientific' misconceptions about women's capabilities. Spanning biology, psychology, and anthropology, Angela Saini reveals the true nature of women supported by the latest research.
- Women's Rights
- Cultural Critique
- Legal Equality
The Doctor and the Saint
Arundhati Roy revisits the conflict between Ambedkar and Gandhi to expose the caste question muted inside Indian nationalist narratives.
- Caste and Gender
- Political Participation
- Historical Context
Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women
Susan Burton’s lived account connects trauma, the drug war, repeated incarceration, and reentry, then turns recovery into care and political work led by formerly incarcerated women.
- Prison Abolition
- Women's Rights
- Trauma and Healing
Matters of Care
María Puig de la Bellacasa extends care into more-than-human worlds, insisting that care can sustain worlds while also burdening and excluding.
- Care Economy
- Feminist Theory
- Science Studies
Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise
房思琪的初恋乐园A harrowing semi-autobiographical novel by Taiwanese author Lin Yi-han, 'Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise' exposes the grooming and sexual abuse of a young girl by her respected literature teacher. Published in 2017 shortly before the author's suicide, the book sparked a massive #MeToo movement across the Chinese-speaking world. It is a powerful, devastating critique of how high culture and social prestige can mask predation.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Mental Health
- Patriarchy Critique
Brilliant Imperfection
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with CureThrough disability, trans experience, eugenic history, and environmental restoration, Eli Clare dismantles the ideology of cure while preserving the necessary tension between medical need and refusal of normalization.
- Disability Justice
- Feminist Disability Studies
- Crip Theory
Living a Feminist Life
This work demonstrates how feminist theory emerges from everyday life, exploring the revolutionary potential of the 'feminist killjoy' figure. Ahmed combines affect theory, queer phenomenology, and intersectional feminism to analyze how feminists become estranged from worlds by naming problems, and create survival strategies to cope with the walls of racism and sexism.
- Feminist Psychology
- Queer Theory
- Phenomenological Feminism
Your Silence Will Not Protect You
'To transform silence into language and action' - . A definitive collection covering the representative works of Audre Lorde, who fought against discrimination, illness, and power while upholding her identity as Black, lesbian, mother, and warrior. An incredibly powerful intellectual legacy for turning difference into the power of solidarity.
- Black Feminism
- Women's Rights
- Social Movements
Programmed Inequality
Marie Hicks rewrites the history of British computerization by showing how women’s computing labor was demoted from core expertise into low-paid, low-status work.
- Digital Feminism
- Labor Rights
- Historical Context
Women as Wartime Rapists
Laura Sjoberg examines rare but revealing cases of female perpetrators of wartime sexual violence and how law and media make sense of them.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Feminist Security Studies
- War and Peace
Kim Ji-young, Born 1982
82년생 김지영Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 is a novel by Korean author Cho Nam-joo, telling the life story of an ordinary Korean woman Kim Ji-young from birth to motherhood. This work reveals deep-rooted gender discrimination in Korean society through understated narrative, sparking widespread discussion about women's situations in Korea and throughout East Asia.
- Gender Norms
- Women's Work
- Family Liberation
Staying with the Trouble
Donna Haraway proposes making kin and the Chthulucene, asking readers to stay with multispecies responsibilities rather than flee into rescue stories.
- Ecofeminism
- Feminist Theory
- Science Studies
Weapons of Math Destruction
Cathy O’Neil explains how scoring, prediction, and risk models amplify existing inequalities across work, education, finance, and policing.
- Algorithmic Bias
- Data Justice
- Technology Critique
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities
A landmark collection by survivors, organizers, and community workers asking how social justice movements can confront intimate violence and build accountability without relying on police and prisons.
- Transformative Justice
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Queer Theory
Lullaby
Chanson douceInspired by a true story, this Goncourt Prize-winning novel tells a chilling tale about the relationship between a 'perfect nanny' and her employer family. Slimani explores boundaries of class, race, and motherhood with sharp, cold prose, revealing deep societal rifts hidden beneath urban life's calm surface.
- Class Politics
- Motherhood
- Care Economy
Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology
Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.
- Women of Color Feminism
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Carceral Feminism