Overview
- A feminist approach to sex dolls and sex robots
- A critical perspective of the narratives that ‘rationalise’ and normalise the use of sex robots
- Demonstrates how law, arts, economy, politics and culture are interconnected with technological activity
Part of the book series: Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI (SOCUSRA)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book presents a unique, feminist approach to ‘sex’ dolls and ‘sex’ robots, taking a critical look at the academic and business narratives that serve to rationalise them. As new forms of pornography (porn robots), this edited volume provides an urgent women’s centred critique.
The emergence of ‘sex’ robots is situated within the wider context of the attack on women’s rights and the relentless rise of techno-pornography. As an outgrowth of the industries of prostitution, pornography and child sex abuse, these objects offer new ways to dehumanise women and girls. While support for ‘sex’ robots is positioned as progressive and emancipatory, the contributors in this volume argue they reduce women to consumable parts. They explore how law, the arts, ethics, economy, politics and culture are interconnected with harmful technological developments.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kathleen Richardson is Professor of Ethics and Culture of Robots and AI in the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Media at De Montfort University. She is author of An Anthropology of Robots and AI: Annihilation Anxiety and Machines (2015) and Challenging Sociality? An Anthropology of Autism, Attachment and Robots (2018). In 2015 she launched the Campaign Against Porn Robots (formerly the Campaign Against Sex Robots) to draw attention to the ethical harms of normalising pornographic technologies of women and girls.
Charlotta Odlind is a freelance writer, coach and women’s rights campaigner based in Brussels, Belgium. She has a BA (Hons) in European Studies with French and Spanish and an MA in International Relations. She has worked on child protection issues at Save the Children Brussels and volunteered with VSO for a year, advising on advocacy and communications strategies in a women’s rights NGO in Kano, Nigeria..
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Man-Made Women
Book Subtitle: The Sexual Politics of Sex Dolls and Sex Robots
Editors: Kathleen Richardson, Charlotta Odlind
Series Title: Social and Cultural Studies of Robots and AI
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19381-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19380-4Published: 02 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19383-5Published: 03 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-19381-1Published: 01 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2523-8523
Series E-ISSN: 2523-8531
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 199
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology, general, Philosophy of Science, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Gender Studies