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A probing examination of how science fiction literature and film has presented feminist debates about difference, globalization, and technoscience.

Table of 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
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: 01/08/2006
      ISBN13: 9780292713079, 978-0292713079
      ISBN10: 029271307X
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      Literary studies: fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A probing examination of how science fiction literature and film has presented feminist debates about difference, globalization, and technoscience.

      Table of 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
      • Bibliography
      • Index

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