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Author Melzer, Patricia, 1970- author.

Title Alien constructions : science fiction and feminist thought / Patricia Melzer
Edition First edition
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (x, 325 pages) : illustrations
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 Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-315) and index
Includes filmography: pages 315-316
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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SUBJECT Alien resurrection (Motion picture) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97102825
Matrix (Motion picture) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2001013717
Alien resurrection (Motion picture) fast
Matrix (Motion picture) fast
Subject Science fiction, American -- History and criticism
Science fiction, English -- History and criticism
Feminism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Science Fiction & Fantasy.
Feminism in literature
Science fiction, American
Science fiction, English
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005033703
ISBN 9780292795822
0292795823