Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 325 p)
,
ill
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010 Electronic reproduction
ISBN:
0292795823
,
9780292795822
Content:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-315) and index -- Includes filmography: p. 315-316
,
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
,
Cultural chameleons : anticolonial identities and resistance in Octavia E. Butler's Survivor and dawnThe 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.
,
Electronic reproduction
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0292713061
Additional Edition:
ISBN 029271307X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0292715064
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0292715072
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780292713062
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780292713079
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780292715066
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780292715073
Additional Edition:
Print version Alien constructions
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
,
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
,
Sociology
Bookmarklink
