Judy Wajcman's 2004 Polity book argues that gender and technology shape each other: it critiques both cyberfeminist optimism and technophobic feminism and proposes 'technofeminism', drawing on science and technology studies to treat technology as both a source and a consequence of gender relations.
Buku Polity Judy Wajcman 2004 yang berargumen bahwa gender dan teknologi saling membentuk: mengkritik optimisme siberfeminis maupun feminisme yang teknofobik, lalu mengusulkan 'teknofeminisme' dengan dasar studi sains dan teknologi, yang melihat teknologi sebagai sumber sekaligus akibat relasi gender.
Sarah Sharma's 2026 Duke monograph reads Big Tech through feminist media theory, arguing that tech culture casts women and feminised labour as 'tools' of a patriarchal machine world (starting from McLuhan's 'sex organs of the machine world'); chapters on the 'woman in tech', domestic and basement tech, platform wealth
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Short reference entry by Suneel Jethani (University of Technology Sydney) defining technopolitics as a perspective on how technical objects, systems and logics mediate the relation between people and power, against deterministic views of technology, with a short reading list (Hecht, Feenberg, Fejerskov and others). Yea
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Douglas Kellner's 2021 Springer VS book (series Medienkulturen im digitalen Zeitalter) builds a Frankfurt School critical theory of digital technologies, linking technocapitalism and technopolitics to democracy, media spectacle, social movements and multiple literacies in education.
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Firuzeh Shokooh Valle's 2023 Stanford UP ethnography of feminist digital activists in the Global South who contest development discourse on 'women and ICT'; it shows how solidarity and pleasure, and uneasy alliances with funders, shape a 'feminist technological otherwise'. Includes a methods appendix.
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Kristen Ghodsee's 2019 Duke monograph arguing socialist 'Second World' women, allied with newly independent states, shaped the UN Decade for Women and were then erased from feminist history. Background on socialist-bloc women's internationalism.
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