Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-140).
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: ch. 7 Female Androids on Screen in an Age of Deep Machine Learning. The Uncanny and the Gothic -- The Female Gothic -- Rosemary's Baby and the Gothic -- The Urban Gothic -- The Suburban Gothic -- ch. 2 Automatons, Androids, and Stepford Wives -- Early Automations -- Science, Electricity, and Rationality -- Galvanic Miracles and Machine Women -- Sci-Fi Cinema and Fembots -- ch. 3 Stepford Wives in Hollywood -- The US Film Industry in the 70s -- Making The Stepford Wives -- ch. 4 The Stepford Wives and Liberal Feminism -- Feminist Diatribe or `Rip Off'? -- Limits of The Feminine Mystique -- She's Crazy, Just Crazy -- Stepford and the Torment of Sisyphus -- ch. 5 Stepford Sequels -- Happy Pills and Payback -- Stepford Husbands and Backlash -- Stepford Children, Patriarchal Rage, and Alien Invasion -- ch. 6 The Stepford Remake -- from Sci-Fi Thriller to Farce? -- Postfeminist Popular Culture and Oz's Stepford -- Postfeminism and Techno-Anxiety in Stepford II -- ch. 7 Stepford Wives in the Real World -- Sex Dolls and Sex Robots -- Heterotopias, Ubiquitous Computing, and the Posthuman -- Female Androids on Screen in an Age of Deep Machine Learning.
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