{"product_id":"sex-robots-the-end-of-love-hardback-9781509530281","title":"Sex Robots; The End of Love (Hardback) 9781509530281","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSex Robots\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe End of Love\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKathleen Richardson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509530281, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 September 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.1 x 14.2 x 2 cm, 0.386 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A truly fascinating and chilling book which demolishes the hype about shiny new technologies, and shows how love and sex are being warped and commodified in new inhuman ways.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKathleen Stock OBE, author of \u003ci\u003eMaterial Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An excellent explainer as to why the critique of and campaign against the production and normalization of porn dolls and sex robots is essential as part of the fight against sexual violence. Richardson brings a laser-sharp focus to a topic few of us understand, and even fewer have engaged in. Thank goodness she has.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulie Bindel, feminist and writer, author of \u003ci\u003eFeminism for\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWomen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Readable yet harrowing\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Spectator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Kathleen Richardson presents a forceful and wide-ranging critique of the ideologies that underpin the industries of pornography, prostitution, child sexual abuse, and the production of sex robots and related representational technologies. [Her] reframing of sex robots as extensions of exploitative sexual economies offers an important and timely intervention into contemporary discussions of intimacy and technology across AI ethics and feminist theory.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eJournal of Ethics and Emerging Technologies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThere are more ways of connecting and communicating via technology than ever before. Yet loneliness is on the rise as we begin to experience an 'attachment crisis' in forming and maintaining intimate relationships. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEnter sex robots. Built from the bodies of sex dolls, they are created to help humans – particularly men – cope with our inability to connect. In this bold and trenchant critique, Kathleen Richardson explores important questions surrounding this emerging technology. What does the rise of sex robots tell us about the way that women and girls are imagined? To what extent are porn, prostitution and child sexual exploitation driving the attachment crisis?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe author argues that sex robots are produced within a framework of 'property relations' – in which egocentric Man (and his disconnection from Woman) shapes the building of robots and AI. Can this tide of destruction and disconnection be turned, and what would a revolution for the love of humanity look like?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePresenting a passionate case for the abolition of practices that cast women as property, \u003ci\u003eSex Robots: The End of Love\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for students and scholars of robot ethics, anthropology, gender studies, philosophy of technology, sociology and related fields, as well as anyone concerned for the future of human relationships.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Politics of Dissociation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Pornography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Prostitution\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Child Sex Abuse\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Aristotle’s Slave Ontology: Ethics and the Egocentric I\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Cyborg Companions: Anthropology and the Undifferentiated We\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Love: I-you Attachment\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: The Politics of Love\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441793134872,"sku":"9781509530281","price":42.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509530281.jpg?v=1785025572","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sex-robots-the-end-of-love-hardback-9781509530281","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}