TY - BOOK AU - Melzer,Patricia ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Alien constructions: science fiction and feminist thought AV - PS374.S35 M45 2006eb U1 - 813/.08762099287 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Austin PB - University of Texas Press KW - Alien resurrection (Motion picture) KW - Matrix (Motion picture) KW - Science fiction, American KW - History and criticism KW - Science fiction, English KW - Feminism in literature KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-315) and index; Includes filmography: p. 315-316; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10217902 ER -