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catalyst-40851	Melling, Rowan	Book Review | The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot, by Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy (MIT Press, 2020)	2024	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1329	62	55	Building on similar critiques such as Safiya Noble’s Algorithms of Oppression (2018) and Jennifer Rhee’s The Robotic Imaginary (2018), the authors’ aim is “to develop smart wives that promote gender equity and diversity” (209). Here, they theorize that “smart wives” arise out of a real “need” (9); that is, they are a logical response to “the contemporary slump in available or willing wives” (6), or the “wife drought” (1), a term they take from Annabel Crabb.	cache/catalyst-40851.pdf	txt/catalyst-40851.txt