The Resource My fair ladies : female robots, androids, and other artificial Eves, Julie Wosk
My fair ladies : female robots, androids, and other artificial Eves, Julie Wosk
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- Summary
- "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 represented as objects of desire in fiction and how "living dolls" have been manufactured as real-world fetish objects. But it also examines the many works in which the "perfect" woman turns out to be artificial--a robot or doll--and thus becomes a source of uncanny horror. Finally, Wosk introduces us to a variety of female artists, writers, and filmmakers--from Cindy Sherman to Shelley Jackson to Zoe Kazan--who have cleverly crafted their own images of simulated women. Anything but dry, My Fair Ladies draws upon Wosk's own experiences as a young female Playboy copywriter and as a child of the "feminine mystique" era to show how images of the artificial woman have loomed large over real women's lives. Lavishly illustrated with film stills, artwork, and vintage advertisements, this book offers a fresh look at familiar myths about gender, technology, and artistic creation" --
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiv, 221 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
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- Simulated women and the Pygmalion myth
- Mechanical Galateas : female automatons and dolls
- Mannequins, masks, monsters, and dolls : film and art in the 1920s and 1930s
- Simulated women in television and films, 1940s and after
- Engineering the perfect woman
- Dancing with robots and women in robotics design
- The woman artist as Pygmalion
- Isbn
- 9780813563374
- Label
- My fair ladies : female robots, androids, and other artificial Eves
- Title
- My fair ladies
- Title remainder
- female robots, androids, and other artificial Eves
- Statement of responsibility
- Julie Wosk
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 represented as objects of desire in fiction and how "living dolls" have been manufactured as real-world fetish objects. But it also examines the many works in which the "perfect" woman turns out to be artificial--a robot or doll--and thus becomes a source of uncanny horror. Finally, Wosk introduces us to a variety of female artists, writers, and filmmakers--from Cindy Sherman to Shelley Jackson to Zoe Kazan--who have cleverly crafted their own images of simulated women. Anything but dry, My Fair Ladies draws upon Wosk's own experiences as a young female Playboy copywriter and as a child of the "feminine mystique" era to show how images of the artificial woman have loomed large over real women's lives. Lavishly illustrated with film stills, artwork, and vintage advertisements, this book offers a fresh look at familiar myths about gender, technology, and artistic creation" --
- Assigning source
- From Amazon
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10438163
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wosk, Julie
- Dewey number
- 704.9/424
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women in art
- Anthropomorphism in art
- Androids in art
- Technology and women
- Human body and technology
- Androids in art
- Anthropomorphism in art
- Human body and technology
- Technology and women
- Women in art
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- female robots, androids, and other artificial Eves
- Label
- My fair ladies : female robots, androids, and other artificial Eves, Julie Wosk
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Simulated women and the Pygmalion myth -- Mechanical Galateas : female automatons and dolls -- Mannequins, masks, monsters, and dolls : film and art in the 1920s and 1930s -- Simulated women in television and films, 1940s and after -- Engineering the perfect woman -- Dancing with robots and women in robotics design -- The woman artist as Pygmalion
- Control code
- 1905967
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 221 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780813563374
- Lccn
- 2014035923
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780813563374
- (OCoLC)890971697
- Label
- My fair ladies : female robots, androids, and other artificial Eves, Julie Wosk
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Simulated women and the Pygmalion myth -- Mechanical Galateas : female automatons and dolls -- Mannequins, masks, monsters, and dolls : film and art in the 1920s and 1930s -- Simulated women in television and films, 1940s and after -- Engineering the perfect woman -- Dancing with robots and women in robotics design -- The woman artist as Pygmalion
- Control code
- 1905967
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 221 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780813563374
- Lccn
- 2014035923
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (some color)
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780813563374
- (OCoLC)890971697
Subject
- trueAndroids in art
- trueAnthropomorphism
- Anthropomorphism in art
- Anthropomorphism in art
- trueGender role
- Human body and technology
- trueAndroids
- Technology and women
- Technology and women
- trueWomen
- trueWomen and technology
- Women in art
- trueWomen in art
- trueHuman body and technology
- Androids in art
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