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index Alien (film), 108, 115, 117–118, 120–122, 126, 132 Alien3 (film), 108, 115, 117–118, 121–122, 124, 132, 133–134, 137, 139, 143–144, 146 alien constructions, 11–13, 69, 71, 73, 259, 264 Alien Resurrection (film): agency in, 135, 145; and appropriation of cyborg in, 131, 143–147; androids in, 120, 123–125, 141, 144–145; boundary transgressions/crossing in, 109, 112, 124, 130, 133, 143–144, 147; and capitalism , 121–122; cyborg (identity) in, 32, 108, 112, 130–131, 140, 146– 147, 260, 264; and cyborg feminism, 105; feminist reading of, 109, 147; gender and sexual difference in, 120, 141; heterosexuality in, 120, 141; kinship with alien in, 124, 126, 132, 135, 137–138, 147; lesbianism in, 120, 136; maternal in, 120, 126, 131, 134– 136, 141; miscegenation in, 122–123; monsters in, 111, 113–115, 121, 124, 131– 132, 134–137, 141, 144; mothers in, 131, 134–136; passing in, 123–124; queen (alien) in, 135–137, 139, 141; queer desire/sexuality in, 120, 136, 141– 142, 147; race difference in, 122–124; and reproduction, 136; technological other in, 123; and technology, 226–228; working class body in, 121–122 aliens: as machine/technology, 115; as metaphors, 11, 70; and nature, 115– 117, 133; as other, 65, 109–110, 114; and racism in science fiction, 80. See also Alien series; Butler, Octavia Aliens (film), 108, 115–116, 118, 121–122, 124, 132, 144, 160 Alien series (films): aliens in, 108– 109, 114–117; androids in, 140; and capitalism, 121; female hero in, 112; heterosexuality in, 136, 144; and kinship with alien, 133–134; maternal in, 132–136; monstrous body in, 262; mothers in, 132–136; queen (alien) in, 115, 132–135; race and class difference in, 120–124; and reproduction, 109–110, 114, 122, 132–133; as series, 3, 109; sexual difference in, 118–124; whiteness in, 122; and woman as machine, 141; and woman as nature , 133, 141; and woman as other, 117–120, 133. See also science fiction film anticolonial: debates and discourses, 47, 52–53, 60, 66; identities in Butler, Octavia, 30–32, 36, 43, 50; mothers in anticolonial discourses, 60–61 anti-globalization movement, 46 Anzaldua, Gloria, 18, 90–92. See also mestiza Atwood, Margaret, 178 Balsamo, Anne, 25, 161, 183, 185 Battlefield Earth (film), 144 Beal, Frances, 44 Beauvoir, Simone de, 14, 110 Belling, Catherine, 117, 132, 145 Bell-Metereau, Rebecca, 111, 115–116, 132 Bhabha, Homi, 53, 65 Biddick, Kathleen, 156–157 Blade Runner (film), 7, 130, 137, 143, 160, 174 body: as armor, 128, 130, 170; as basis for identity, 150, 167; in cyberpunk, 130, 155, 184; in cyberspace, 29; cyborg, 25, 32, 189; in cyborg feminism, 318 ALIEN CONSTRUCTIONS 178; denaturalized, 184, 262–263; as discursive, 83, 230; female body and technology, 163, 183; female body in Western thought, 110, 162; (female) posthuman, 180, 189–190; in feminist science fiction, 20, 103; intersexed, 28–30, 219, 242–245, 248, 252, 259; invasion of, 109, 114; marked/unmarked, 156, 170, 190; monstrous, 100; non-normative, 28– 29, 245; normative, 154, 180–181; posthuman, 13, 184, 188–190, 264; racialized, 184; and technology, 103, 162, 185, 188; technology and female, 103–104, 110, 163; in technoscience, 25; transsexual, 29, 227; working class, 121–122. See also Butler, Octavia; Calder, Richard; intersexed; Matrix, The; mind/body dualism; posthuman; Scott, Melissa Bonner, Frances, 40, 45, 87 Booth, Austin, 22, 24 Born in Flames (film), 9 Bornstein, Kate, 252 boundary transgressions/crossing: as form of hybridity, 59, 65; as resistance , 65; in science fiction film, 111. See also Alien Resurrection; Butler, Octavia; cyborg; nomadic subject Bradley, Marion Zimmer, 222 Braidotti, Rosi, 10, 14–15, 17–18, 67, 89, 92–93, 126, 132, 135. See also nomadic subject Bryant, Dorothy, 178, 222 Bukatman, Scott, 4, 124–125, 145, 147, 153, 159, 161–162, 168–69 Butler, Judith: gender performativity, 164, 210, 224–225, 229, 237; Gender Trouble, 209, 224, 239; ‘‘Gender Trouble, Feminist Theory, and Psychoanalytic Discourse,’’ 225; ‘‘Imitation and Gender Insubordination ,’’ 177, 223–224, 226, 237, 238; Undoing Gender, 28–29, 181, 241, 243, 245, 249, 251 Butler, Octavia: Adulthood Rites, 59, 62, 75, 77, 95, 237–238; agency in, 57, 60, 65–66, 77–78, 85–86, 102, 223; aliens in, 69–80, 86–88; androgyny in, 232–235; and anticolonial debates , 50; anticolonial identities in, 30–32, 36, 43, 50; biographical information on, 35–36; bisexuality in, 233; and black women’s imagination /writing...

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