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Alien constructions science fiction and feminist thought

Title
Alien constructions [electronic resource] : science fiction and feminist thought / Patricia Melzer.
Author
Melzer, Patricia, 1970-
Publication
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.

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Description
1 online resource (x, 325 p.) : ill.
Uniform Title
Alien constructions (Online)
Alternative Title
Alien constructions (Online)
Subject
  • Alien resurrection (Motion picture)
  • Matrix (Motion picture)
  • Science fiction, American > History and criticism
  • Science fiction, English > History and criticism
  • Feminism in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-315) and index.
  • Includes filmography: p. 315-316.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2005033703
OCLC
ssj0000101142
Author
Melzer, Patricia, 1970-
Title
Alien constructions [electronic resource] : science fiction and feminist thought / Patricia Melzer.
Imprint
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-315) and index.
Includes filmography: p. 315-316.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
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