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THE SMART WIFE - YOLANDE STRENGERS JENNY KENNED...

The life and times of the Smart Wife--feminized digital assistants who are friendly and
sometimes flirty  occasionally glitchy but perpetually available. Meet the Smart Wife--at your
service  an eclectic collection of feminized AI  robotic  and smart devices. This digital
assistant is friendly and sometimes flirty  docile and efficient  occasionally glitchy but
perpetually available. She might go by Siri  or Alexa  or inhabit Google Home. She can keep us
company  order groceries  vacuum the floor  turn out the lights. A Japanese digital voice
assistant--a virtual anime hologram named Hikari Azuma--sends her master helpful messages
during the day  an American sexbot named Roxxxy takes on other kinds of household chores. In
The Smart Wife  Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy examine the emergence of digital devices
that carry out wifework--domestic responsibilities that have traditionally fallen to (human)
wives. They show that the principal prototype for these virtual helpers--designed in
male-dominated industries--is the 1950s housewife: white  middle class  heteronormative  and
nurturing  with a spick-and-span home. It's time  they say  to give the Smart Wife a reboot.
What's wrong with preferring domestic assistants with feminine personalities? We like our
assistants to conform to gender stereotypes--so what? For one thing  Strengers and Kennedy
remind us  the design of gendered devices re-inscribes those outdated and unfounded
stereotypes. Advanced technology is taking us backwards on gender equity. Strengers and Kennedy
offer a Smart Wife manifesta  proposing a rebooted Smart Wife that would promote a revaluing of
femininity in society in all her glorious diversity.

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