Digital FeminismBooks

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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

A groundbreaking investigation into the online world of extreme misogyny, exposing how incel communities, pickup artists, and the broader 'manosphere' radicalize men against women. Bates reveals the dangerous real-world consequences of digital hatred and its impact on society as a whole.

Legacy Russell treats the glitch as a strategy for escaping normative bodies, binary gender, and platform legibility, linking queer, Black, and digital art practices.

Drawing on fieldwork in Paraguay, Morgan G. Ames follows One Laptop per Child to show how technological salvation projects universalize privileged childhoods and erase teachers, care, and infrastructure.

A profound and philosophical guide to reclaiming our attention in an era where our focus is commodified and efficiency is seen as the ultimate value. Odell explores how 'doing nothing' can be a radical act of resistance, leading to deeper connections with our local environments, communities, and ourselves.

Drawing on experience as both programmer and journalist, Meredith Broussard dismantles the belief that technology is always the best answer and maps the limits between computation, judgment, and public responsibility.

Through the making of Vectors and Scalar, Tara McPherson asks whether feminism can inhabit databases, interfaces, collaborative labor, and software architecture - not only content.

From early computing and programming languages to network directories and online communities, Claire L. Evans reconstructs women’s history as programmers, infrastructure maintainers, and creators of internet culture.

Sara Wachter-Boettcher analyzes how forms, product copy, defaults, and tech workplace cultures exclude gendered, racialized, and embodied difference from the “normal user.”

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.

Janet Abbate traces the historical shift from women’s high participation in computing work to the formation of masculinized professional identity.

Judy Wajcman rejects technological determinism and argues that technology and gender are co-produced social relations.

Sadie Plant’s cyberfeminist writing links weaving, computing, women’s labor, and network culture as a key 1990s digital feminist text.

Judy Wajcman uses factories, housework, reproductive technology, and urban space to show that gender shapes technology while machines, skills, and infrastructure stabilize power.