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# Choose Your Own Smart Wife |
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Developed by [Yolande Strengers](https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/yolande-strengers) and [Jenny Kennedy](https://www.jennykennedy.net/) |
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## Overview |
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The aim here is for participants to interrogate the stereotypical gendered ideology that underpins emerging home technologies that we might otherwise call advanced. |
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Excerpt from [The Smart Wife](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/smart-wife) |
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Excerpt from [The Smart Wife](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/smart-wife) (MIT, 2020) |
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“There are a range of artificial wife- inspired creations moving into our homes. These include robovacs, smart fridges and laundry- folding machines, digital home voice assistants, social robots, sexbots, and other feminized (and even supposedly gender- neutral) AI devices intended to help around the home. Many of these technologies resemble an idealized 1950s’ housewife, subservient to the needs of her family. These smart wives are already performing a range of wifework, including housekeeping, homemaking, caring, and sex. |
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## Resources |
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Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy , [The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/smart-wife ) (2020) |
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Thao Phan, ]“Amazon Echo and the Aesthetics of Whiteness”](https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/29586 ), *Catalyst* (2019) |
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Thao Phan, [Amazon Echo and the Aesthetics of Whiteness](https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/29586 ), *Catalyst* (2019) |
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UNESCO and EQUALS Skills Coalition, [I’d blush if I could](https://en.unesco.org/Id-blush-if-I-could |
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) (2019) |
