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Author Melzer, Patricia, 1970-

Title Alien constructions : science fiction and feminist thought / Patricia Melzer.

Publication Info. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.

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 Moore Stacks  PS374.S35 M45 2006    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description x, 325 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-315) and index.
Includes filmography: pages 315-316.
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.
Subject Science fiction, American -- History and criticism.
Science fiction, American.
Science fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Science fiction, English.
Feminism in literature.
Feminism in literature.
Alien resurrection (Motion picture)
Alien resurrection (Motion picture)
Matrix (Motion picture)
Matrix (Motion picture)
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