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Alien Constructions : Science Fiction and Feminist Thought.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (338 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780292795822
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Alien ConstructionsDDC classification:
  • 813/.08762099287
LOC classification:
  • PS374
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Science Fiction's Alien Constructions -- PART 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 -- PART 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 -- PART 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 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction: Science Fiction's Alien Constructions -- Introduction to Part I -- 1. Cultural Chameleons -- 2. The Alien in Us -- Introduction to Part II -- 3. Technoscience's Stepdaughter -- 4. Our Bodies as Our Selves -- 5. The Anatomy of Dystopia -- 6. Beyond Binary Gender -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Science Fiction's Alien Constructions -- PART 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 -- PART 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 -- PART 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 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction: Science Fiction's Alien Constructions -- Introduction to Part I -- 1. Cultural Chameleons -- 2. The Alien in Us -- Introduction to Part II -- 3. Technoscience's Stepdaughter -- 4. Our Bodies as Our Selves -- 5. The Anatomy of Dystopia -- 6. Beyond Binary Gender -- Bibliography -- Index.

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