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BOOK DETAILS
Title: Gender, Power and Emergent Technology
Subtitle: Governing the Default
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Editor: Christine Haskell, Ph.D.
Publication date: January, 2027
Description (short)
Reframes women’s leadership as relational governance for AI-mediated institutions, offering copy-ready tools for participatory oversight, municipal governance, and repair-ready accountability. It helps organizations replace extractive defaults with consent-first, benefit-sharing practices that surface harm and make repair enforceable.
Description (Long)
Across clinics, classrooms, city halls, and financial systems, women continue doing the uncredited work of governing AI: deciding when systems can be trusted, paused, refused, and repaired. Governing the Default names this work as relational governance, demonstrating how leaders can turn critique of AI’s extractive norms into operational practice. Bringing together industry and academic contributors, the volume reframes organizational care as governance designed into decision rights, feedback loops, oversight, and repair. Its copy-ready practices help leaders, educators, and policymakers replace opaque defaults with consent-first, benefit-sharing, repair-ready systems.
INTERVIEW TOPICS
Why gender is a governance issue (and why it’s so controversial)
Why care, consent, refusal, and repair belong in AI governance
What institutions miss when they treat AI governance as policy
How leaders can move from hype to judgment
What relational governance looks like in practice
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SELECTED PRAISE
Short excerpts from scholars, practitioners, and public thinkers responding to the book’s contribution to AI governance, care, accountability, evidence, and repair.
“The most interesting interventions do not simply critique existing systems; they change our ability to perceive them.”
WHY THIS BOOK NOW
KNOWLEDGE & POWER
“Technology governance is also an evaluative question: whose knowledge counts, whose context matters, and who has authority to name harm, success, and repair.”
“Too often, AI tools are handed to clinicians with great attention to accuracy and almost none to how decisions get made at the bedside… It is timely and genuinely usable.”
HEALTH & JUDGMENT
“An important and timely contribution to the AI governance debate, adding an essential feminist and relational lens.”
AI GOVERNANCE
“Those most affected by a system should have real authority in governing it.”
PUBLIC ACCOUNTABLIITY
“Anyone building AI into a large enterprise should read this before their next platform rollout, not after.”
ENTERPRISE AI
