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Books · Feb 2025

The Male Complaint: The Manosphere and Misogyny Online

Simon James Copland

A comprehensive analysis of the online manosphere and its relationship to contemporary misogyny. Copland examines how digital platforms have enabled the formation of misogynistic communities that blend historical male grievances with modern technological capabilities to create new forms of anti-feminist resistance.

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Books · Mar 2023

Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement and What It Means for Women's Rights Worldwide

Hawon Jung

Former AFP Seoul correspondent Hawon Jung provides a firsthand account from the frontlines of South Korea's feminist movement, documenting how tens of thousands of Korean women sparked a MeToo wave, ended abortion bans, fought spycam crimes, and shattered Western stereotypes of 'docile' Asian women. Named one of The Economist's Best Books of 2023.

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Books · Mar 2023

More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech

Meredith Broussard

A powerful work by NYU professor, data scientist, and one of the few Black women AI researchers, Meredith Broussard. Reveals how tech neutrality is a myth and algorithms need accountability. From facial recognition only trained on lighter skin tones, to mortgage algorithms encouraging discriminatory lending, to dangerous feedback loops in medical diagnostic algorithms. Solution isn't making omnipresent tech more inclusive, but rooting out algorithms that target demographics as 'other.'

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Books · Mar 2022

The Cyberfeminism Index

Mindy Seu

A pioneering work exploring feminism in the digital age, analyzing how the internet, artificial intelligence, and digital technologies are reshaping gender relations and feminist practice.

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Books · Aug 2021

The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot

Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy

Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy trace how voice assistants, domestic robots, and intimate technologies encode wifework into the future home, then propose a feminist reboot.

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Books · Mar 2021

Your Computer Is on Fire

Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, and Kavita Philip

This collection rewrites computing history through colonialism, race, gender, environment, and labor, refusing to treat technical problems as merely engineering problems.

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Articles · Jan 2025

From Suffrage Movements to #MeToo: The Enduring Global Fight for Gender Equality

Isabela De los Rios Hernández

This article traces the evolution of feminist movements from the 19th-century suffrage campaigns to the digital activism of the #MeToo era. It explores the four waves of feminism, their historical contexts, and the persistent global challenges to gender equality, including political representation, reproductive rights, and social stigma.

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Articles · Nov 2024

Reproductive Rights in the Digital Surveillance Era: When Technology Becomes a Tool of Oppression

Electronic Frontier Foundation & Privacy International

In the post-Roe era, digital privacy has suddenly become a matter of life and death for abortion seekers. Period tracking apps, search histories, and location data can all become evidence for prosecution. This article analyzes how digital surveillance threatens reproductive freedom and how women can protect their digital privacy.

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Articles · Mar 2024

Gender Bias in AI: The 2024 Wake-Up Call

UN Women & UNESCO

New research reveals 44% of AI systems show gender bias, while women's underrepresentation in tech is making it worse. From ChatGPT to image generators, AI is reinforcing harmful gender stereotypes.

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Articles · Jan 2024

The 4B Movement: Political Practice as Radical Negativity

The Cut

The 4B movement (no marriage, no childbirth, no dating, no sex with men) is not merely a defensive retreat from extreme patriarchy, but a courageous 'political strike' aimed at paralyzing the mechanisms of patriarchal reproduction.

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Articles · May 2023

Online Opposition to Gender Equality

UN Women Asia and the Pacific

Research from Bangladesh, India, and the Philippines maps how anti-feminist narratives circulate online, showing that digital misogyny is organized through culture, platform incentives, and political identity rather than isolated bad behavior.

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Papers · Jan 2025

Gender Bias in Artificial Intelligence and Digital Feminism: Empowering Women Through Digital Literacy

Premier Science Research Team

This paper investigates the interplay between gender bias in AI systems and the potential of digital literacy to empower women in technology. Synthesizing research from 2010-2024, it examines how gender bias manifests in AI and the effectiveness of digital literacy initiatives.

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Papers · Jun 2024

Data Feminism for AI

Lauren F. Klein and Catherine D'Ignazio

Klein and D'Ignazio apply the principles of Data Feminism to AI, calling for AI practice grounded in power analysis, intersectionality, co-design, situated knowledge, and refusal of harm.

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Papers · Feb 2018

Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification

Joy Buolamwini, Timnit Gebru

A groundbreaking 2018 FAccT study revealing severe bias in commercial facial recognition systems against darker-skinned women, with error rates up to 34.7% compared to just 0.8% for lighter-skinned males.

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Papers · Oct 2016

Feminist Data Visualization

Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein

D'Ignazio and Klein bring feminist theory into data visualization, proposing ways to redesign data expression around power, affect, embodiment, positionality, and uncertainty.

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Papers · Jan 2016

A Future for Intersectional Black Feminist Technology Studies

Safiya Umoja Noble

Noble argues for Black feminist technology studies, showing how search, platforms, and digital infrastructures reproduce racialized and gendered power rather than operating as neutral tools.

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Papers · Jan 1985

A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century

Donna Haraway

This influential essay reimagines feminist theory through the metaphor of the cyborg - a hybrid of machine and organism. Haraway critiques traditional boundaries between human and non-human, nature and culture, and proposes a post-gender, post-essentialist feminist politics rooted in affinity, irony, and technological embodiment.