Alien Woman : The Making of Lt. Ellen Ripley

Acknowledgments vii Foreword ix Introduction: Can't Live with Them, Can't Kill Them 1(12) Men, Women, and an Alien Baby 13(49) Ripley Gets Her Gun: Aliens and the Reagan Era Hero 62(53) ``The Bitch Is Back'': The Iconoclastic Body in Alien3 115(42) ``Who Are You?'': Alien Resurrection and the Posthuman Subject 157(41) Afterword: Alien Woman 198(7) Selected Bibliography 205(16) Notes 221(14) Index 235