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My Fair Ladies

Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves

By: Julie Wosk

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My Fair Ladies

Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves

By: Julie Wosk

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.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813563399

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9780813563398

Women and the Machine

Representations from the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age

By: Julie Wosk

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Women and the Machine

Representations from the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age

By: Julie Wosk

“An engaging study of the ways women and machines have been represented in art, photography, advertising, and literature.” —Arwen Palmer Mohun, University of Delaware From sexist jokes about women drivers to such empowering icons as Amelia Earhart and Rosie the Riveter, representations of the relationship between women and modern technology in popular culture have been both demeaning and celebratory. Depictions of women as timid and fearful creatures baffled by machinery have alternated with images of them as being fully capable of technological mastery and control—and of lending sex appeal to machines as products. In Women and the Machine, historian Julie Wosk maps the contradictory ways in which women’s interactions with—and understanding of—machinery has been defined in Western popular culture since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Drawing on both visual and literary sources, Wosk illuminates popular gender stereotypes that have burdened women throughout modern history while underscoring their advances in what was long considered the domain of men. Illustrated with more than 150 images, Women and the Machine reveals women rejoicing in their new liberties and technical skill even as they confront society’s ambivalence about these developments, along with male fantasies and fears. “Engaging and entertaining . . . Using illustrations, cartoons and photographs from the past three centuries, Wosk delineates shifts in social acceptance of women’s relationship to technology . . . her work is complex, comprehensive and highly readable.” —Publishers Weekly “Art historian Wosk analyzes the overt and covert messages in depictions of women and machines in an array of fiction and, more impressively, in some 150 visual images.” —Booklist

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Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM

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0801877814

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9780801877810

Women and the Machine

Representations from the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age

By: Julie Wosk

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Representations from the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age

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My Fair Ladies

Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves

By: Julie Wosk

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Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves

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Rutgers University Press

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0813575206

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9780813575209

Breaking Frame

Technology and the Visual Arts in the Nineteenth Century

By: Julie Wosk

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Breaking Frame

Technology and the Visual Arts in the Nineteenth Century

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Technology and the Visual Arts in the Nineteenth Century

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081351925X

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9780813519258

The Truth About Love

By: Julie Anne Wack

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The Truth About Love

By: Julie Anne Wack

For as long as she could remember, Gertrude Kueshner had never wanted anything but to create beautiful hats that would one day be worn by the high society ladies of New York City. She endured the teasing of her four brothers and the lectures of her disapproving father, an immigrant who published a small socialist newspaper and thought little of the rich and fashionable society people of the big, bustling city. That was until she had the misfortune to meet a handsome, cynical detective. Alexander Marshall was the most exasperating man she had ever met, and Gertrude wanted nothing more to do with him despite the strange fluttering sensations she felt when he was near. But then two murders occur near Gertrude's father's print shop, and she finds herself once again in the company of the determined detective. When the happiness of Gertrude's large, loving family is threatened, Gertrude makes up her mind to find whoever was responsible for the murders, even if it means risking her own life, as well as her heart.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1524563803

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9781524563806

Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies

By: Emma Walton Hamilton

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Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies

By: Emma Walton Hamilton

Julie Andrews and her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton, have hand-selected a wonderful mix of their most cherished poems, songs, and lullabies in this rich and diverse poetry collection."--Amazon.com.

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192

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Little Brown & Company

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0316040495

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9780316040495

Book's by Julie Wosk

My Fair Ladies

My Fair Ladies

Women and the Machine

Women and the Machine

Women and the Machine

Women and the Machine

My Fair Ladies

My Fair Ladies

Breaking Frame

Breaking Frame

The Truth About Love

The Truth About Love

Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies

Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies

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