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

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 e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wosk, Julie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.