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 -- Introduction: Science Fiction's Alien Constructions -- Introduction to Part I -- 1. Cultural Chameleons -- 2. The Alien in Us -- Introduction to Part II -- 3. Technoscience's Stepdaughter -- 4. Our Bodies as Our Selves -- 5. The Anatomy of Dystopia -- 6. Beyond Binary Gender -- Bibliography -- Index.