Overview
- Addresses how controversies such as #GamerGate and #TakeBackTheTech reveal continuing struggles in the area of gender equity
- Curates feminist scholarship by both established and emerging researchers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to explore the intersection of women’s studies and game studies
- Part of a trilogy of books addressing questions of gender, sexuality, and gaming cultures from a comprehensive, contemporary perspective
Part of the book series: Palgrave Games in Context (PAGCON)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Neither Virgin Nor Vixen: Representations of Women
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All Made Up: Gendering Assemblages
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Beyond Feminization: Gaming and Social Futures
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About this book
Feminism in Play focuses on women as they are depicted in video games, as participants in games culture, and as contributors to the games industry. This volume showcases women’s resistance to the norms of games culture, as well as women’s play and creative practices both in and around the games industry. Contributors analyze the interconnections between games and the broader societal and structural issues impeding the successful inclusion of women in games and games culture. In offering this framework, this volume provides a platform to the silenced and marginalized, offering counter-narratives to the post-racial and post-gendered fantasies that so often obscure the violent context of production and consumption of games culture.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kishonna L. Gray is an assistant professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. She is also a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, USA.
Gerald Voorhees is Assistant Professor of Digital Culture and Communication in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Waterloo, Canada. His research is on games and new media as sites for the construction and contestation of identity and culture.
Emma Vossen is an award-winning public speaker and writer with a PhD from the University of Waterloo, Canada. She served as Editor-in-Chief of game studies publication First Person Scholar and her research about gender and games was the focus of a nationally broadcast CBC Radio documentary.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Feminism in Play
Editors: Kishonna L. Gray, Gerald Voorhees, Emma Vossen
Series Title: Palgrave Games in Context
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90539-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90538-9Published: 10 October 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90539-6Published: 04 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2731-5029
Series E-ISSN: 2731-5037
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 271
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Cultural and Media Studies, Culture and Technology, Culture and Gender, Culture and Gender, Digital/New Media, Media and Communication