Alien constructions: science fiction and feminist thought

by Melzer, Patricia

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Title Statements

Full title :Alien constructions : science fiction and feminist thought / Patricia Melzer

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2006
Edition:1. ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Texas Press
Place of Publication:Austin
Language:eng
Publication Date:2006

Notes

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

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (x, 325 p.) : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0292713061, 029271307X, 0292715064, 9780292715066, 0292715072, 9780292715073, 9780292713062, 9780292713079
oclc:ocn475260310
LC Classification:PS374.S35
Dewey Decimal:813 .08762099287

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.

Subjects

Alien resurrection (Motion picture) Criticism, interpretation, etc Feminism in literature Féminisme dans la littérature Matrix (Motion picture) Science fiction, American Science fiction, American -- History an… Science fiction, English Science fiction, English -- History and…