{"title":"Books by Lauren F. Klein","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780262547185","title":"Data Feminism","description":"\u003cb\u003eCutting edge strategies for thinking about data science and data ethics through an intersectional feminist lens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Without ever finger-wagging, \u003ci\u003eData Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e reveals inequities and offers a way out of a broken system in which the numbers are allowed to lie.”—\u003ci\u003eWIRED\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask: Data science by whom? Data science for whom? Data science with whose interests in mind? The narratives around big data and data science are overwhelmingly white, male, and techno-heroic. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eData Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e, Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein present a new way of thinking about data science and data ethics—one that is informed by intersectional feminist thought. Illustrating data feminism in action, D'Ignazio and Klein show how challenges to the male\/female binary can help challenge other hierarchical (and empirically wrong) classification systems. They explain how, for example, an understanding of emotion can expand our ideas about effective data visualization, and how the concept of invisible labor can expose the significant human efforts required by our automated systems. And they show why the data never, ever “speak for themselves.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eData Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e offers strategies for data scientists seeking to learn how feminism can help them work toward justice, and for feminists who want to focus their efforts on the growing field of data science. But \u003ci\u003eData Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e is about much more than gender. It is about power, about who has it and who doesn't, and about how those differentials of power can be challenged and changed.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56232394162549,"sku":"9780262547185","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780262547185_fbc133f1-6518-403d-b196-8e6a1a4e3f75.jpg?v=1786012732"},{"product_id":"9781517905095","title":"An Archive of Taste","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking synthesis of food studies, archival theory, and early American literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is no eating in the archive. This is not only a practical admonition to any would-be researcher but also a methodological challenge, in that there is no eating-or, at least, no food-preserved among the printed records of the early United States. Synthesizing a range of textual artifacts with accounts (both real and imagined) of foods harvested, dishes prepared, and meals consumed, \u003ci\u003eAn Archive of Taste\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how a focus on eating allows us to rethink the nature and significance of aesthetics in early America, as well as of its archive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLauren F. Klein considers eating and early American aesthetics together, reframing the philosophical work of food and its meaning for the people who prepare, serve, and consume it. She tells the story of how eating emerged as an aesthetic activity over the course of the eighteenth century and how it subsequently transformed into a means of expressing both allegiance and resistance to the dominant Enlightenment worldview. Klein offers richly layered accounts of the enslaved men and women who cooked the meals of the nation’s founders and, in doing so, directly affected the development of our national culture-from Thomas Jefferson’s emancipation agreement with his enslaved chef to Malinda Russell’s \u003ci\u003eDomestic Cookbook\u003c\/i\u003e, the first African American–authored culinary text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first book to examine the gustatory origins of aesthetic taste in early American literature, \u003ci\u003eAn Archive of Taste\u003c\/i\u003e shows how thinking about eating can help to tell new stories about the range of people who worked to establish a cultural foundation for the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312527028597,"sku":"9781517905095","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781517905095_5f5099e6-34d0-4a17-bcff-f37c3862ba0d.jpg?v=1786022021"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-lauren-f-klein.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}