The New Age of Sexism, Laura Bates
The New Age of Sexism, Laura Bates
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The New Age of Sexism
How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny

Author: Laura Bates

Narrator: Laura Bates

Unabridged: 8 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/09/2025

Synopsis

We like to believe we're moving closer to equality, riding the wave of technological progress into a brighter, fairer future. But beneath the glossy surface of innovation lies a chilling truth: new technologies are not just failing to solve age-old inequalities—they're deepening them.

In The New Age of Sexism, acclaimed author and activist Laura Bates exposes how misogyny is being coded into the very fabric of our future. From the biases embedded in artificial intelligence to the alarming rise of sex robots and the toxic dynamics of the metaverse, Bates takes listeners on a shocking journey into a world where technology is weaponized against women.

This isn't a dystopian warning about what might happen. It's a harrowing account of what's happening now and the dangers we face if we don't act. With clarity and urgency, Bates reveals how these advancements are dragging society backward, reinforcing harmful stereotypes, and jeopardizing decades of progress in the fight for gender equality.

Eye-opening and empowering, The New Age of Sexism is a rallying cry for awareness and action in a world where the battle for equality has entered a dangerous new frontier.

About Laura Bates

Laura Bates is an English professor at Indiana State University, where she has taught courses on Shakespeare for the past 15 years to students on campus and in prison. She enjoys teaching a wide range of courses at Indiana State University, from Children's Literature to World Literature, Shakespeare, and Crime and Punishment. With a PhD (University of Chicago, 1998) in Comparative Literature, her academic training involved classic world literature alongside contemporary texts and theory. Her work has been featured in national media, including MSNBC's Lock Up. Laura lives in Indiana.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily May on July 30, 2025

Bates intended to make her readers angry with this book and, for me, it worked. Bates' own fury can be felt simmering under every sentence, which makes it compelling and difficult to look away from. The New Age of Sexism is a warning about how emerging tech can, and is, being used to promote misogyn......more

Goodreads review by jaimie on May 15, 2025

four stars because i am afraid......more

Goodreads review by Booksblabbering || Cait❣️ on September 07, 2025

This is THE book of 2025. I implore everyone to pick it up, to gift it to everyone you know. I want everyone in politics, law, powerful positions, education to read this. There were moments reading this book, I had to stop to go rant at my mother. This turned into hours of us discussing sexism and h......more

Goodreads review by Tanja on June 15, 2025

This is an absolutely shocking manifesto on how AI and the internet environment is terrible for women and pushing out voices to the fringes. Part of the problem is the «move fast and break things» approach to new technology and an absolute resistance of the tech companies themselves to add any guard......more

Goodreads review by Jess on May 19, 2025

I am utterly sickened in the most necessary and awakening way. Laura Bates has written something truly staggering. She goes into the DEPTHS of AI, sex robots, cyber brothels, the online violence towards human and AI women. The misogyny, abuse, and hatred towards women in this new era of AI is truly t......more

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