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Alien constructions : science fiction and feminist thought
- Title
- Alien constructions : science fiction and feminist thought / Patricia Melzer.
- Author
- Melzer, Patricia, 1970-
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.
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- Publisher description
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- Description
- x, 325 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-315) and index.
- Includes filmography: p. 315-316.
- Contents
- Introduction : science fiction's alien constructions -- Pt. I. Difference, identity, and colonial experience in feminist science fiction -- 1. Cultural chameleons : anticolonial identities and resistance in Octavia E. Butler's Survivor and Dawn -- 2. The alien in us : metaphors of transgression in the work of Octavia E. Butler -- Pt. II. Technologies and gender in science fiction film -- 3. Technoscience's stepdaughter : the feminist cyborg in Alien resurrection -- 4. Our bodies as our selves : body, subjectivity, and (virtual) reality in The matrix -- Pt. III. Posthuman embodiment : deviant bodies, desire, and feminist politics -- 5. The anatomy of dystopia : female technobodies and the death of desire in Richard Calder's Dead girls -- 6. Beyond binary gender : genderqueer identities and intersexed bodies in Octavia E. Butler's Wild seed and Imago and Melissa Scott's Shadow man.
- ISBN
- 0292713061 ((cl.) : alk. paper)
- 029271307X ((pbk.) : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005033703
- 9780292713062
- 9780292713079
- OCLC
- OCM62341529
- SCSB-5266532
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries