Alien constructions [electronic resource] : science fiction and feminist thought / Patricia Melzer.

By: Melzer, Patricia, 1970-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 325 p. : illSubject(s): Alien resurrection (Motion picture) | Matrix (Motion picture) | Science fiction, American -- History and criticism | Science fiction, English -- History and criticism | Feminism in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 813/.08762099287 LOC classification: PS374.S35 | M45 2006Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cultural chameleons : anticolonial identities and resistance in Octavia E. Butler's Survivor and dawn -- The alien in us : metaphors of transgression in the work of Octavia E. Butler -- Technoscience's stepdaughter : the feminist cyborg in Alien resurrection -- Our bodies as our selves : body, subjectivity, and (virtual) reality in The matrix -- The anatomy of dystopia : female technobodies and the death of desire in Richard Calder's Dead girls -- Beyond binary gender : genderqueer identities and intersexed bodies in Octavia E. Butler's Wild seed and Imago and Melissa Scott's Shadow man.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-315) and index.

Includes filmography: p. 315-316.

Cultural chameleons : anticolonial identities and resistance in Octavia E. Butler's Survivor and dawn -- The alien in us : metaphors of transgression in the work of Octavia E. Butler -- Technoscience's stepdaughter : the feminist cyborg in Alien resurrection -- Our bodies as our selves : body, subjectivity, and (virtual) reality in The matrix -- The anatomy of dystopia : female technobodies and the death of desire in Richard Calder's Dead girls -- Beyond binary gender : genderqueer identities and intersexed bodies in Octavia E. Butler's Wild seed and Imago and Melissa Scott's Shadow man.

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