My Fair Ladies: Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves

Fantastic pictures and details in film and TV about female robots .A great book and well written with wit and intelligence .

Well written !

Great book from a great professor

This book describes and convincingly explains many instances of artificial women and women acting artificially from fiction, film, art, and performance art.I was particularly struck by the discussion of the "uncanny valley," the unsettling moment when someone, perhaps the object of love, turns out to be a robot, or someone thought to be a robot turns out to be human.Also, for me, the description and analysis of the many instances of Ray Bradbury's Electric Grandmother and its variants struck home strongly, evoking memories that had me teary eyed as I read.And the analysis of the many iterations of the Pygmalion theme in both art and story over the course of 2000 years made me think of Shakespeare rewriting and transforming plays/plots/characters that others had created, finding the true story and bringing the characters to life.

In My Fair Ladies, art-historian/painter/ professor Julie Wosk has given us a brilliant history of artificial (read "man-made") women, along with her insightful commentary into this fascinating phenomenon.Beginning with a lively discussion of the Pygmalion myth first created in ancient Greece, a myth that has evolved over the centuries into many different versions, including the play by George Bernard Shaw and musical theater's My Fair Lady, Wosk's book moves swiftly through literature, movies, TV, art, robotics, and photography.Richly illustrated with photographs, art, and scenes from movies and television, the book includes Wosk's clever commentary on the apparently unending male desire to create artificial--even robotic--women.My Fair Ladies presents an extraordinary cavalcade of "artificial eves” in this lively and very smart book.