Science StudiesBooks

Memorial Sloan Kettering oncologist and medical historian Dr. Elizabeth Comen unveils the collective medical history of women, exploring how medicine has long misunderstood women's bodies and how these historical oversights continue to affect women's health today.

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.'

Max Liboiron uses plastic pollution research to show how environmental science can presume access to land, while modeling anticolonial research ethics.

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.

Donna J. Haraway’s feminist guide to multispecies life, reproductive freedom, colonial histories, care, and making kin on a damaged earth.

Judy Wajcman connects factories, homes, cyberspace and design to ask who defines technological problems, holds expertise and carries the labor.

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

A groundbreaking work of ecofeminist scholarship that examines how the Scientific Revolution transformed Western culture's understanding of nature from a living, nurturing organism to a dead, mechanical object to be exploited. Merchant reveals the intimate connection between the domination of women and the domination of nature.

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's 1905 feminist science-fiction story turns gendered access to education, public space, and science into a speculative experiment - and asks whether knowledge will serve everyday life or militarized power.