BRAND NEW "The Smart Wife" (by Yolande Strengers, Jenny Kennedy) Hardcover Book

Description: BRAND NEW hardback book —"THE SMART WIFE: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot" by Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy. From the publisher: "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. 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. 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 For one thing, Strengers and Kennedy remind us, the design of gendered devices re-inscribes those outdated and unfounded stereotypes.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."

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Publication Year: 2020

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Book Title: The Smart Wife

Author: Yolande Strengers, Jenny Kennedy

Original Language: English

Publisher: The MIT Press

Topic: Books