Maps the intersection of feminism and science fiction through readings of science fiction literature by Octavia E Butler, Richard Calder, and Melissa Scott and the movies "The Matrix" and the "Alien" series. This work analyzes how these authors and films represent debates and concepts in three areas of feminist thought.
Maps the intersection of feminism and science fiction through readings of science fiction literature by Octavia E Butler, Richard Calder, and Melissa Scott and the movies "The Matrix" and the "Alien" series. This work analyzes how these authors and films represent debates and concepts in three areas of feminist thought.
* 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
* 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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