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Expecting Inequity

How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans

by Khiara M. Bridges

ISBN: 9780262051552

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 31, 2026

An unsettling exploration of the persistence of racism in maternal healthcare in the US—and why even affluent Black women are imperiled by substandard care.

Her Space, Her Time

How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe

by Shohini Ghose

ISBN: 9780262552998

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 4, 2025

An exciting new title in the vein of Hidden Figures, which tells the inspiring stories of long-overlooked women physicists and astronomers who discovered the fundamental rules of the universe and reshaped the rules of society.

In through the Side Door

Fifty Years of Women in Interaction Design

by Erin Malone

Foreword by Aynne Valencia

ISBN: 9780262548892

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 15, 2024

The vital story of how women designers and researchers pioneered the field of interaction and user experience design for software and digital interfaces.

Cracking the Bro Code

by Coleen Carrigan

ISBN: 9780262547055

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 9, 2024

Why dominant racial and gender groups have preferential access to jobs in computing, and how feminist labor activism in computing culture can transform the field into a force that serves democracy and social justice.

The Ghost Reader

Recovering Women’s Contributions to Media Studies

Edited by Elena D. Hristova, Aimee-Marie Dorsten and Carol A. Stabile

ISBN: 9781913380748

Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

Pub Date: January 16, 2024

The scholarship, research, and criticism of women who developed key theories of communication and methods for the study of media.

This Is Not a Feminism Textbook

Edited by Catherine Rottenberg

ISBN: 9781913380878

Publisher: Goldsmiths Press

Pub Date: November 14, 2023

Feminist scholars from around the world on key debates and concerns ranging from motherhood, home, and family to media, technology, and medicine.

There's Nothing Micro about a Billion Women

Making Finance Work for Women

by Mary Ellen Iskenderian

ISBN: 9780262547192

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 5, 2023

Why it takes more than microloans to empower women and promote sustainable, inclusive economic growth.

Girls Coming to Tech!

A History of American Engineering Education for Women

by Amy Sue Bix

ISBN: 9780262546515

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 1, 2022

How women coped with both formal barriers and informal opposition to their entry into the traditionally masculine field of engineering in American higher education.