Alien Bodies and a Queer Future: Sexual Revision in Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” and James Tiptree, Jr.’s “With Delicate Mad Hands”

2012/01/01 by Amanda Thibodeau, Amanda R. Thibodeau · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Digital Games and Media #Gothic Literature and Media Analysis #Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction

paper · doi:10.5621/sciefictstud.39.2.0262

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Abstract

Amanda Thibodeau, Alien Bodies and a Queer Future: Sexual Revision in Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” and James Tiptree, Jr.’s “With Delicate Mad Hands”, Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 39, No. 2 (July 2012), pp. 262-282

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