Alien Constructions : : Science Fiction and Feminist Thought /

Alien Constructions : : Science Fiction and Feminist Thought / / Patricia Melzer.

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Though set in other worlds populated by alien beings, science fiction is a site where humans can critique and re-imagine the paradigms that shape this world, from fundamentals such as the sex and gender of the body to global power relations among sexes, races, and nations. Feminist thinkers and writ...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Melzer, Patricia,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2006
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Science Fiction’s Alien Constructions
  • PART I Difference, Identity, and Colonial Experience in Feminist Science Fiction
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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