{"id":5274,"date":"2015-03-05T14:45:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T14:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/?p=5274"},"modified":"2015-03-05T14:53:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-05T14:53:44","slug":"man-woman-machine-gender-automation-and-created-beings-childrens-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2015\/03\/05\/man-woman-machine-gender-automation-and-created-beings-childrens-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, Woman, Machine:  Gender, Automation, and Created Beings &#8211; Children&#8217;s Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2015\/03\/Photo-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5275\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2015\/03\/Photo-1-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo 1\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2015\/03\/Photo-1-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2015\/03\/Photo-1-735x1024.jpg 735w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a>From <em>Pinocchio <\/em>to <em>The Velveteen Rabbit, <\/em>tales of creation and animation have long captured the childhood imagination. I have spent several days in the reading room exploring the treatment of created beings in children\u2019s literature. These stories differ in their narrative style, subject matter, and characters, but nonetheless offer fascinating commentary on artificiality and personhood.<\/p>\n<p>I have selected seven illustrations from the children\u2019s literature collection that visually bring these animated characters to life. Each one highlights the unique ways in which authors treat toys, dolls, cyborgs, and automata throughout the ages.<\/p>\n<p><em style=\"color: #373737\">Intern Giorgina Paiella is an undergraduate student majoring in English and minoring in philosophy and women\u2019s, gender, and sexuality studies. In her new blog series, \u201cMan, Woman, Machine: Gender, Automation, and Created Beings,\u201d she will explore treatments of created and automated beings in archival materials from Archives and Special Collections.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;5277&#8242;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Pinocchio to The Velveteen Rabbit, tales of creation and animation have long captured the childhood imagination. I have spent several days in the reading room exploring the treatment of created beings in children\u2019s literature. These stories differ in their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2015\/03\/05\/man-woman-machine-gender-automation-and-created-beings-childrens-literature\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5286,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions\/5286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}