Gender, Sex, and Tech!: An Intersectional Feminist Guide (eng)

In this timely collection, gender, sex, and technology are explored through an intersectional and interdisciplinary lens. Gender, Sex, and Tech! provides insight into the ways that technology affects, and is affected by, cultural perceptions of gender and sex. Through an examination of a range of past and present issues, the text highlights our relationships to technology and illustrates how gendered relations are shaped and transformed through social and technological innovations.

Contributors bring to the fore feminist, decolonizing, and anti-racist methods to examine our everyday uses of technology, from the mundane to the surreal to the playful to the devastating. Original research and scholarship is skillfully grounded in real-world scenarios like revenge pornography, gender bias in artificial intelligence, menstrual tracking, online dating, and the COVID-19 pandemic, inviting students to take a closer look at technological transformations and their impact on gendered lived experience and to consider how the benefits of technology are inequitably shared within society.

Centring Canadian scholars and Canadian perspectives without losing sight of the broader global connection, Gender, Sex, and Tech! is bursting with timely and of-the-moment content, making this collection a must-read for courses focused on gender and technology.

Using an interdisciplinary and intersectional lens, Gender, Sex, and Tech! provides insight into the ways that technology affects, and is affected by, cultural perceptions of gender and sex. Through analysis of a range of past and present issues, the text examines our relationship with technology and illustrates how gendered relations are shaped and transformed through social and technological innovations.

Contributors bring to the fore feminist, decolonizing, and anti-racist methods to investigate our everyday uses of technology, from the mundane and the surreal, to the playful and the devastating. Original research and scholarship is grounded in real-world scenarios such as revenge pornography, gender bias in Artificial Intelligence, menstrual tracking, online dating, and the COVID-19 pandemic. This seminal text invites students to take a closer look at technological transformations, their impact on gendered lived experience, and to consider how the benefits of technology are inequitably shared within society.

Centering Canadian scholars and Canadian perspectives against the backdrop of broader global issues, Gender, Sex, and Tech! is bursting with of-the-moment content, making this collection a must-read for courses focused on gender and technology.