| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Taking us on a fascinating tour across a wide variety of media, from sci-fi films to underwear ads, My Fair Ladies introduces us to a bevy of lifelike, manmade women, from automatons to artificial intelligent robots. Julie Wosk considers how this figure of the "perfect woman" has come to embody not only fantasies, but also fears about gender and technology. In addition, she examines how female artists have subverted these images of the artificial woman that loom so large over real women's lives. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women in art.
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Women in art. |
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Anthropomorphism in art.
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Anthropomorphism in art. |
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Androids in art.
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Androids in art. |
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Technology and women.
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Technology and women. |
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Human body and technology.
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Human body and technology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wosk, Julie. My fair ladies. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015] 9780813563381 (DLC) 2014035923 (OCoLC)890971697 |
| ISBN |
0813563399 (electronic book) |
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9780813563398 (electronic book) |
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9780813563381 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0813563380 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780813563374 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0813563372 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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