Artificial Women

Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More Facsimile Females

Julie Wosk (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

220 Seiten

2024
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-06925-2 (ISBN)

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Enhanced by artificial intelligence, today's simulated females are becoming ever more lifelike as the virtual vies with the real. They have already had a dramatic impact on personal relationships, on our views of women, and our ideas about what it means to be human.
From sex dolls to Siri, talking Barbies to robotic mothers, Artificial Women explores the ways in which today's simulated females, both real and fictional, reflect and expose our own ideas about sexuality, gender, and the impact of simulations on social relationships. Join Julie Wosk as she probes the realm of compliant robot sex workers, nurturing genial caregivers and companions, virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa, and rebellious creations in film, television, literature, art, photography, and current developments in robotics. These simulated women often reflect old stereotypes, but also highlight a new breed of female robots, cyborgs, and dolls that possess agency, self-awareness, and autonomy.
Artificial Women pushes the boundaries of culture studies to consider how new digital technologies, artificial intelligences, and burgeoning simulations affect our own understandings of ourselves.

Julie Wosk is Professor Emerita of English, Art History, and Studio Art at the State University of New York Maritime College. Her research centers on the social and cultural impact of technology. She is author of several books, including My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves; Women and the Machine: Representations from the Spinning Wheel to the Electronic Age; and Breaking Frame: Technology and the Visual Arts in the Nineteenth Century. She is also an artist and photographer.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A New Breed of Sex Robots and Sex Dolls
2. Under the Skin: The Fabricated Femme Fatale
3. Female Robot Caretakers, Doubles, and Companions
4. Paradoxes of Perfection: A Servant No More
5. Virtual Voices: Talking Barbie Dolls, Alexa, Bitchin' Betty, and More
Coda
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.03.2024
Zusatzinfo	47 b&w illus.
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	331 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-253-06925-4 / 0253069254
ISBN-13	978-0-253-06925-2 / 9780253069252
Zustand	Neuware