The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot

Author
Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy
Content
x + 305 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Description
Examines stunted innovation in virtual and robotic assistants because the industry relies on stereotypes of the 1950s servile American housewife.
Main subject
Feminism and Women's Rights
Science, Environment, Mathematics, and Technology
Sociology and Social Issues
ISBN
9780262044370 (cloth); 9780262542791 (pap.); 9780262360043 (ebook)
Citation
Strengers, Yolande, and Jenny Kennedy. The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020. Sylvia. Accessed September 26, 2023. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL1961.
Updated
09-06-2022

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Choice 58.2 (2020), rev. 58-0428

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