Jennifer Robertson

Professor of Anthropology and the History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Co-Editor, Critical Asian Studies. Her current work explores human-robot relations and robot theatre in Japan.

Nr. 140 (2016) Essay 22–35 {:en}An Oscar for Wakamaru: Robots, Gender, and PerformanceBeginning with an introduction to the robot Wakamaru, followed by the origins and current definitions of the word “robot”, this essay interrogates the differences between sex and gender in humans and humanoids, with a focus on Japanese robots. I compare the gender technologies employed in the all-male Kabuki theatre, which emerged in the early 1600s, … von by Jennifer Robertson
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