Gender, Sex, and Tech!: An Intersectional Feminist Guide - Softcover

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Jennifer Jill Fellows is a Faculty Member in the Philosophy Department at Douglas College. Her current research interests are in social epistemology and the metaphysics of personhood. Lisa Smith is a Faculty Member in the Department of Sociology at Douglas College. Her research expertise lies in sexual and reproductive health, gender-based violence and the post-secondary context, and public and community-engaged sociology.

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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.