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Companion Sex Robots: Racialized Household Economics.

Companion sex robots are developed to enhance the sexual and emotional fulfillment of consumers. These robots have kinesthetic and affective settings programmed to outsource care labor to technology. Feminist care ethics enable a robust exploration of whether these robots liberate women from exploit...

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Published in:Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (Indiana University Press) Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 43 - 65
Main Author: Wolff, Michelle
Format: Editorial
Published: Indiana University Press Fall2021
Subjects:
Feminist ethics
Subjectivity
Robots
Dehumanization
Households
Neoliberalism
Africans
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      ab: Companion sex robots are developed to enhance the sexual and emotional fulfillment of consumers. These robots have kinesthetic and affective settings programmed to outsource care labor to technology. Feminist care ethics enable a robust exploration of whether these robots liberate women from exploitative forms of care labor and if companion sex robots adequately serve vulnerable populations. In this article, Wolff argues that outsourcing care labor to robots exacerbates rather than redresses the dehumanization and isolation that vulnerable populations suffer. The author shows how womanist ethics and African women's theology redress the inadequacy of neoliberal formulations of subjectivity because it critiques exploitative care labor and advances justice.
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