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10%OFFJulie Wosk - My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves - 9780813563374 - V9780813563374
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My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves

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Description for My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves Paperback. .
Runner-up for the 2015 Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Book Prize 

The fantasy of a male creator constructing his perfect woman dates back to the Greek myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. Yet as technology has advanced over the past century, the figure of the lifelike manmade woman has become nearly ubiquitous, popping up in everything from Bride of Frankenstein to Weird Science to The Stepford Wives. Now Julie Wosk takes us on a fascinating tour through this bevy of artificial women, revealing the array of cultural fantasies and fears they embody.  My Fair Ladies considers how female automatons have been ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813563374
SKU
V9780813563374
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Julie Wosk
JULIE WOSK is a professor of art history, English, and studio painting at the State University of New York, Maritime College in New York City. She is the author of Women and the Machine: Representations From the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age and Breaking Frame: Technology and the Visual Arts in the Nineteenth Century.   

Reviews for My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves
"Wosk presents a riveting portrait of simulated women, female robots, and robot technology in media and art from ancient generations to modern-day creations. The author provides insight about generational interpretation of the 'perfect woman' and the depiction of simulated women to reconcile societal fears of changing gender roles and emerging technologies."
Library Journal
"An engaging historical account of ... Read more

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