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Programmed Inequality
Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in ComputingMar Hicks traces how British institutions classified women’s computing expertise as low-status labor, then built a prestigious field that excluded the workers on whom it depended.
- Digital Feminism
- Labor Rights
- Historical Context
Feminism and the Politics of Childhood: Friends or Foes?
Rosen and Twamley’s collection asks how women’s and children’s justice can be pursued together, without erasing either carers’ labor or children’s agency.
- Family Liberation
- Care Economy
- Motherhood Critique
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Safiya Umoja Noble begins with the stigmatization of Black girls in commercial search to expose how advertising markets, platform monopoly, and knowledge classification produce algorithmic oppression.
- Data Feminism
- Algorithmic Bias
- Black Feminism
Gender and the Politics of History
Joan Wallach Scott's 1988 landmark work establishes gender as a central category of historical analysis, profoundly challenging biological determinism and essentialism in traditional historiography, and laying a solid foundation for feminist historical theory.
- Feminist Theory
- Historical Context
- Gender Studies
Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens
Uma Chakravarti reads caste not as a simple social hierarchy, but as a historical order sustained through control of women’s sexuality, marriage, and inheritance.
- Brahmanical Patriarchy
- Caste and Gender
- Feminist Theory
Trap Door
Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of VisibilityThrough work on Sir Lady Java, Black trans women’s documentation, archives, and art, this anthology asks when visibility enables recognition and when it subjects trans lives to dominant norms.
- Trans Feminism
- Media Representation Critique
- Queer Theory
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
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times
Puar examines how selective queer inclusion can accompany racialized exclusion, linking sexuality, nationalism and security through homonationalism.
- Queer Theory
- Nationalism
- Race and Gender
Transgender History
Susan Stryker’s 2017 second edition traces U.S. trans communities and movements from the postwar era through the 2000s, showing how political language and coalitions change over time.
- 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
Recoding Gender: Women's Changing Participation in Computing
Janet Abbate traces the historical shift from women’s high participation in computing work to the formation of masculinized professional identity.
- Digital Feminism
- Women's History
- Labor Rights
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
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
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
Notes of a Crocodile
鱷魚手記A cult classic of Taiwanese queer literature, depicting the life of a group of lesbians in 1990s Taipei through a surreal and intense narrative. Written by Qiu Miaojin shortly before her tragic suicide, it captures the raw energy of post-martial law Taiwan.
- LGBTQ+
- Queer Theory
- Queer Identity
Matters of Care
A feminist reading of María Puig de la Bellacasa’s account of care as maintenance, affect and political obligation - from knowledge-making to permaculture and living soil.
- Care Economy
- Feminist Theory
- Science Studies
Sex Object: A Memoir
A raw and unflinching memoir detailing how women are treated as 'sex objects' from a young age and the deep scars this leaves on their self-perception, relationships, and mental health. A leading voice in contemporary feminism, Valenti indicts the essence of misogyny in modern society through her own experiences.
- Bodily Autonomy
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Cultural Critique
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
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
A groundbreaking work in transgender theory that challenges the binary gender system, explores gender fluidity and performativity, and provides theoretical foundations for non-binary gender identity.
- Trans Feminism
- Queer Theory
- Bodily Autonomy
Women as Wartime Rapists
Using cases from Nazi Germany, Serbia, and ISIS, Laura Sjoberg asks how wartime sexual violence by women is sensationalized while perpetrators’ agency, accountability, and legal position remain obscured.
- Anti-Sexual Violence
- Feminist Security Studies
- War and Peace