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| # Choose Your Own Smart Wife | # Choose Your Own Smart Wife | ||||
| Developed by [Yolande Strengers](https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/yolande-strengers) and [Jenny Kennedy](https://www.jennykennedy.net/) | |||||
| ## Overview | ## Overview | ||||
| The aim here is for participants to interrogate the stereotypical gendered ideology that underpins emerging home technologies that we might otherwise call advanced. | The aim here is for participants to interrogate the stereotypical gendered ideology that underpins emerging home technologies that we might otherwise call advanced. | ||||
| Excerpt from [The Smart Wife](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/smart-wife) | |||||
| Excerpt from [The Smart Wife](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/smart-wife) (MIT, 2020) | |||||
| “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. | “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 | ## Resources | ||||
| 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) | 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) | ||||
| Thao Phan, ]“Amazon Echo and the Aesthetics of Whiteness”](https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/29586 ), *Catalyst* (2019) | |||||
| Thao Phan, [Amazon Echo and the Aesthetics of Whiteness](https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/29586 ), *Catalyst* (2019) | |||||
| UNESCO and EQUALS Skills Coalition, [I’d blush if I could](https://en.unesco.org/Id-blush-if-I-could | UNESCO and EQUALS Skills Coalition, [I’d blush if I could](https://en.unesco.org/Id-blush-if-I-could | ||||
| ) (2019) | ) (2019) | ||||