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- Title
Sara Wenger, "Review of Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation by Jennifer Robertson (University of California Press)".
- Authors
Wenger, Sara
- Abstract
Jennifer Robertson's Robo Sapiens Japanicus: Robots, Gender, Family, and the Japanese Nation assesses the robot phenomenon in Japan within the last decade. Offering sustained critiques on contemporary techno-fix narratives, Robertson reveals how humanoid robots are designed and deployed to reify conservative values under the guise of technological advancements. Robertson's impressive ethnographic project weaves together robots of science fact and fiction, leaving readers to interrogate how humanoids, androids, gynoids, and cyborgs both challenge and reify existing social structures across the globe.
- Subjects
UNIVERSITY of California Press; ROBOTS; GENDER; FAMILIES
- Publication
Lateral (2469-4053), 2021, Vol 10, Issue 1, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2469-4053
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.25158/l10.1.31