Download e-book for iPad: My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other by Julie Wosk

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By Julie Wosk

ISBN-10: 0813563372

ISBN-13: 9780813563374

ISBN-10: 0813563380

ISBN-13: 9780813563381

The fable of a male author developing his excellent lady dates again to the Greek fantasy of Pygmalion and Galatea. but as know-how has complicated during the last century, the determine of the real looking artifical girl has turn into approximately ubiquitous, doping up in every little thing from Bride of Frankenstein to Weird Science to The Stepford Wives. Now Julie Wosk takes us on a desirable travel via this bevy of synthetic ladies, revealing the array of cultural fantasies and fears they embody. 
 
My reasonable Ladies considers how woman automatons were represented as gadgets of wish in fiction and the way “living dolls” were synthetic as real-world fetish gadgets. however it additionally examines the numerous works within which the “perfect” lady seems to be artificial—a robotic or doll—and hence turns into a resource of uncanny horror. ultimately, Wosk introduces us to numerous girl artists, writers, and filmmakers—from Cindy Sherman to Shelley Jackson to Zoe Kazan—who have cleverly crafted their very own photos of simulated women. 
 
Anything yet dry, My reasonable women draws upon Wosk’s personal reviews as a tender lady Playboy copywriter and as a toddler of the “feminine mystique” period to teach how pictures of the factitious lady have loomed huge over genuine women’s lives. Lavishly illustrated with movie stills, art, and classic ads, this ebook deals a clean examine conventional myths approximately gender, expertise, and creative creation. 
 
 

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