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

Author/creator Melzer, Patricia, 1970-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoAustin : University of Texas Press, 2006.
Descriptionx, 325 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [299]-315) and index.
Bibliography noteIncludes filmography: p. 315-316.
LCCN 2005033703
ISBN0292713061 ((cl.) : alk. paper)
ISBN029271307X ((pbk.) : alk. paper)
ISBN0292715064 (hbk.)
ISBN0292715072 (pbk.)
ISBN9780292713062
ISBN9780292713079
Standard identifier# 9780292715062
Standard identifier# 9780292715079

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PS374.S35 M45 2006 ✔ Available Place Hold