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Julie Wosk
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Rutgers Univ Pr
Publication date
July 28, 2015
Pages
221
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780813563381
ISBN-10
0813563380
Dimensions
0.75 by 6.25 by 9.50 in.
Weight
1.25 lbs.
Original list price
$90.00
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
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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.Â
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My Fair Ladies considers how female automatons have been represented as objects of desire in fiction and how âliving dollsâ have been manufactured as real-world fetish objects. But it also examines the many works in which the âperfectâ woman turns out to be artificialâa robot or dollâand thus becomes a source of uncanny horror. Finally, Wosk introduces us to a variety of female artists, writers, and filmmakersâfrom Cindy Sherman to Shelley Jackson to Zoe Kazanâwho have cleverly crafted their own images of simulated women.Â
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Anything but dry, My Fair Ladies draws upon Woskâs own experiences as a young female Playboy copywriter and as a child of the âfeminine mystiqueâ era to show how images of the artificial woman have loomed large over real womenâs 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.Â
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Hardcover
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from Rutgers Univ Pr (July 28, 2015)
9780813563381 | details & prices | 221 pages | 6.25 × 9.50 × 0.75 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $90.00
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About: The fantasy of a male creator constructing his perfect woman dates back to the Greek myth of Pygmalion and Galatea.
Paperback
from Rutgers Univ Pr (July 28, 2015)
9780813563374 | details & prices | 221 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $29.95
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