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Book Review

Synthetic hyper-idealised femininity: the politics of sex dolls

Man-made women: the sexual politics of sex dolls and sex robots, by Kathleen Richardson and Charlotta Odlind, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, 206 pp., $149.27 (hardback), ISBN: 2523-8531

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