Editing Gynoid (section)

===Gender===
Fiction about gynoids or female cyborgs reinforce [[Gender essentialism|essentialist]] ideas of [[femininity]], according to Margret Grebowicz.<ref>{{cite book |title= SciFi in the mind's eye: reading science through science fiction|last= Grebowicz|first= Margret |author2=L. Timmel Duchamp |author3=Nicola Griffith |author4=Terry Bisson |year=2007 |publisher= Open Court|page=xviii |isbn=978-0-8126-9630-1}}</ref> Such essentialist ideas may present as sexual or gender stereotypes. Among the few non-eroticized fictional gynoids include [[Rosie the Robot Maid]] from ''[[The Jetsons]]''. However, she still has some stereotypical feminine qualities, such as a [[matron]]ly shape and a predisposition to cry.<ref>{{cite book |title= The Social Psychology of Gender: How Power and Intimacy Shape Gender Relations|url= https://archive.org/details/socialpsychology00phdl|url-access= limited|last= Rudman|first= Laurie A.|author2=Peter Glick |author3=Susan T. Fiske |year=2008 |publisher= Guilford Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/socialpsychology00phdl/page/n191 178] |isbn=978-1-59385-825-4}}</ref>

[[Image:Fembots 2 APIMOM.jpg|thumb|220px|Exaggeratedly feminine fembots with guns in their breasts, from the film ''[[Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery]]'']]
The stereotypical role of wifedom has also been explored through use of gynoids. In ''[[The Stepford Wives]]'', husbands are shown as desiring to restrict the independence of their wives, and obedient and stereotypical spouses are preferred. The husbands' technological method of obtaining this "perfect wife" is through the murder of their human wives and replacement with gynoid substitutes that are compliant and housework obsessed, resulting in a "picture-postcard" perfect suburban society. This has been seen as an allegory of male chauvinism of the period, by representing marriage as a master-slave relationship, and an attempt at raising feminist consciousness during the era of [[second wave feminism]].<ref name=technophob78/>

In a parody of the fembots from ''The Bionic Woman'', attractive, blonde fembots in alluring baby-doll nightgowns were used as a lure for the fictional agent [[Austin Powers (character)|Austin Powers]] in the movie ''[[Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery]]''. The film's sequels had [[cameo appearance]]s of characters revealed as fembots.

[[Jack Halberstam]] writes that these gynoids inform the viewer that femaleness does not indicate naturalness, and their exaggerated femininity and sexuality is used in a similar way to the title character's exaggerated masculinity, lampooning stereotypes.<ref>{{cite book |title= In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives|last= Halberstam|first= Judith |year= 2005|publisher=NYU Press |page= 144|isbn=978-0-8147-3585-5}}</ref>