fembot
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- IPA: /ˈfɛmbɒt/
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fembot (plural fembots)
- (science fiction) A robot in female form.
- 2003, Jyanni Steffensen, "Doing It Digitally: Rosalind Brodsky and the Art of Virtual Female Subjectivity", Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture, The MIT Press, p. 218, ISBN 0262561506 [1]
- The body of Eve 8, the fembot, represents both steely industrial strength and the mysteries of microelectronic circuitry.
- 2006, M. Apostolina, Dark Cindy, Simon & Schuster, p. 136, ISBN 1416917691 [2]
- I see spandex, I see leather. Mmm. Yes. Very fembot.
- 2003, Jyanni Steffensen, "Doing It Digitally: Rosalind Brodsky and the Art of Virtual Female Subjectivity", Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture, The MIT Press, p. 218, ISBN 0262561506 [1]
- (derogatory) A docile, unthinking and conformist woman.
- 1996, Melissa Raphael, Thealogy and Embodiment: The Post-Patriarchal Reconstruction of Female Sacrality, Sheffield Academic Press, p. 61, ISBN 1850757577 [3]
- [...] patriarchal socialization works to sap, stunt and tame this energy, leaving successfully adapted women as little more than 'fembots' or 'feminized artifacts' who have become the products and commodities of patriarchal 'necrophilic' sexual fantasy.
- 2003, Donna Haraway, The Haraway Reader, Routledge, p. 3, ISBN 0415966892 [4]
- Too many people, forgetting the discipline of love and rage, have read the "Manifesto" as the ramblings of a blissed-out, technobunny, fembot.
- 1996, Melissa Raphael, Thealogy and Embodiment: The Post-Patriarchal Reconstruction of Female Sacrality, Sheffield Academic Press, p. 61, ISBN 1850757577 [3]
