{"product_id":"sex-dolls-at-sea-bo-ruberg-9780262543675","title":"Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies","description":"\u003cb\u003eInvestigating and reimagining the origin story of the sex doll through the tale of the sailor's \u003ci\u003edames de voyage\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe sex doll and its high-tech counterpart the sex robot have gone mainstream, as both the object of consumer desire and the subject of academic study. But sex dolls, and sexual technology in general, are nothing new. Sex dolls have been around for centuries. In \u003ci\u003eSex Dolls at Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, Bo Ruberg explores the origin story of the sex doll, investigating its cultural implications and considering who has been marginalized and who has been privileged in the narrative. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRuberg examines the generally accepted story that the first sex dolls were \u003ci\u003edames de voyage\u003c\/i\u003e, rudimentary figures made of cloth and leather scraps by European sailors on long, lonely ocean voyages in centuries past. In search of supporting evidence for the lonesome sailor sex doll theory, Ruberg uncovers the real history of the sex doll. The earliest commercial sex dolls were not the \u003ci\u003edames de voyage\u003c\/i\u003e but the \u003ci\u003efemmes en caoutchouc\u003c\/i\u003e \"women\" made of inflatable vulcanized rubber, beginning in the late nineteenth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInterrogating the sailor sex doll origin story, Ruberg finds beneath the surface a web of issues relating to gender, sexuality, race, and colonialism. What has been lost in the history of the sex doll and other sex tech, Ruberg tells us, are the stories of the sex workers, women, queer people, and people of color whose lives have been bound up with these technologies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bo Ruberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262543672\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262543675\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/14\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Bo Ruberg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056713036031,"sku":"9780262543675","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7190aeee-9dca-4fbe-8f6d-4ea4a0368eb2.jpg?v=1685042842","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sex-dolls-at-sea-bo-ruberg-9780262543675","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}