{"product_id":"alien-constructions-9780292713079","title":"Alien Constructions","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA probing examination of how science fiction literature and film has presented feminist debates about difference, globalization, and technoscience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction: Science Fiction's Alien Constructions \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part I. Difference, Identity, and Colonial Experience in Feminist Science Fiction \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 1. Cultural Chameleons: Anticolonial Identities and Resistance in Octavia E. Butler's \u003ci\u003eSurvivor\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDawn\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 2. The Alien in Us: Metaphors of Transgression in the Work of Octavia E. Butler \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part II: Technologies and Gender in Science Fiction Film \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 3. Technoscience's Stepdaughter: The Feminist Cyborg in \u003ci\u003eAlien Resurrection\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 4. Our Bodies as Our Selves: Body, Subjectivity, and (Virtual) Reality in \u003ci\u003eThe Matrix\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Part III: Posthuman Embodiment: Deviant Bodies, Desire, and Feminist Politics \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 5. The Anatomy of Dystopia: Female Technobodies and the Death of Desire in Richard Calder's \u003ci\u003eDead Girls\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 6. Beyond Binary Gender: Genderqueer Identities and Intersexed Bodies in Octavia E. Butler's \u003ci\u003eWild Seed\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eImago\u003c\/i\u003e and Melissa Scott's \u003ci\u003eShadow Man\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Conclusion \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400849957207,"sku":"9780292713079","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780292713079.jpg?v=1730471738","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/alien-constructions-9780292713079","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}