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Step into a world where
  • Little girls dressed up as women dance for an audience of adult men.
  • A pornographic deepfake image or video of you exists on the internet and you just don’t know it yet.
  • Men create ‘perfect’ AI girlfriends who live in their pocket – customised to every last detail, from breast size to eye colour and personality, only lacking the ability to say no.
This isn’t an image of the future. Sex robots, chatbots and the metaverse are here and spreading fast. A new wave of AI-powered technologies, with misogyny baked into their design, is putting women everywhere in danger.

In The New Age of Sexism, Sunday Times bestselling author and campaigner Laura Bates takes the reader deep into the heart of this strange new world. She travels to cyber brothels and visits schools gripped by an epidemic of online sexual abuse, showing how every aspect of our lives – from education to work, sex to entertainment – is being infiltrated by ever-evolving technologies that are changing the way we live and love forever. This rising tide, despite all its potential for good, is a wild west where women’s rights and safety are being sacrificed at the altar of profitability.

Gripping and eye-opening, The New Age of Sexism exposes a phenomenon we can’t afford to ignore any longer. Our future is on the line. We need to act now, before it is too late.

About The Author

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Laura Bates studied English at Cambridge University and went on to be a freelance journalist. She has written for the Guardian, the Independent, the New Statesman, Red Magazine and Grazia among others. She is also contributor at Women Under Siege, a New-York based organisation working to combat the use of sexual violence as a tool of war in conflict zones worldwide. She is the founder of the Everyday Sexism Project.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK (May 15, 2025)
  • Length: 320 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781471190483

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Raves and Reviews

‘A fascinating, mind-blowing and deeply intelligent book that should be recommended reading for every person on our planet

– Scarlett Curtis on Men Who Hate Women

‘Laura Bates puts out books that perfectly describe growing problems and possible solutions. She's a proper hero at the coal mouth

– Caitlin Moran

‘Laura Bates is showing us the path to both intimate and global survival’

– Gloria Steinem

‘A brilliant thinker and campaigner’

Financial Times

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