Alien constructions
Subtitle: science fiction and feminist thought
By: Patricia Melzer.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780292713062; 9780292713079
Subjects: Alien resurrection (Motion picture).; Matrix (Motion picture).; Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Science fiction, English -- History and criticism.; Feminism in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cultural chameleons : anticolonial identities and resistance in Octavia E. Butler's Survivor and dawn; title: The alien in us : metaphors of transgression in the work of Octavia E. Butler; title: Technoscience's stepdaughter : the feminist cyborg in Alien resurrection; title: Our bodies as our selves : body, subjectivity, and (virtual)  reality in The matrix; title: The anatomy of dystopia : female technobodies and the death of desire in Richard Calder's Dead girls; title: Beyond binary gender : genderqueer identities and intersexed bodies in Octavia E. Butler's Wild seed and imago and Melissa Scott's Shadow man.