My fair ladies : female robots, androids, and other artificial Eves

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Label

My fair ladies : female robots, androids, and other artificial Eves

Title remainder

female robots, androids, and other artificial Eves

Statement of responsibility

Julie Wosk

Creator

• trueWosk, Julie

Author

• trueWosk, Julie

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

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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

704.9/424

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography