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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Julie Wosk; Rutgers University Press. |
ISBN: | 9780813563381 0813563380 9780813563374 0813563372 9780813563398 0813563399 |
OCLC Number: | 1043027379 |
Description: | XIV, [2], 221 stron : ilustracje ; 23 cm. |
Responsibility: | Julie Wosk. |
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'The clarity and the engaging style of Wosk's descriptions-not to mention the images included in the book-make of My Fair Ladies a veritable trove of resources for teachers and students of gender, culture, and the media, particularly in introductory level courses.'-Feminist Media Studies'Julie Wosk - professor of art history and author of My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids and other artificial Eves explored pop culture representations of sex robots, from Ex Machina's Ava to Good Girl's brothel-owned learning sex bot. Sex robots are most commonly female, beautiful and subservient, and Wosk pointed out that in pop culture they also have a tendency to rebel. Westworld, Humans, Ex Machina - all include strong, often terrifying, female robots who gain consciousness, and could be seen as a manifestation of society's fears of women gaining power.'- The Guardian, 2016'Dr. Wosk cited men's quest to create a robot in the guise of "The Perfect Woman"-a robot like the ones in The Stepford Wives films that were sexy, soothing, compliant, and never had any needs or ambitions of their own. But in today's films like Ex Machina, and in television series like the hugely popular Westworld and Humans, female robots go rogue-sometimes even committing murder in order to retaliate against abuse or to gain their own freedom.'- Huffington Post Read more...

