Alien constructions : science fiction and feminist thought /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Melzer, Patricia, 1970-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Austin : University of Texas Press, [2006]
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Science fiction, American > History and criticism. Science fiction, English > History and criticism. Feminism in literature. Alien resurrection (Motion picture) Matrix (Motion picture)

Table of 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.