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Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures: Passionate Play: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

Autor Jenny Sundén, Malin Sveningsson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 sep 2013
How do gender and sexuality come to matter in online game cultures? Why is it important to explore "straight" versus "queer" contexts of play? And what does it mean to play together with others over time, as co-players and researchers?
Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures is a book about female players and their passionate encounters with the online game World of Warcraft and its player cultures. It takes seriously women’s passions in games, and as such draws attention to questions of pleasure in and desire for technology.
The authors use a unique approach of what they term a "twin ethnography" that develops two parallel stories. Sveningsson studies "straight" game culture, and makes explicit that which is of the norm by exploring the experiences of female gamers in a male-dominated gaming context. Sundén investigates "queer" game culture through the queer potentials of mainstream World of Warcraft culture, as well as through the case of a guild explicitly defined as LGBT.
Academic research on game culture is flourishing, yet feminist accounts of gender and sexuality in games are still in the making. Drawing on feminist notions of performance, performativity and positionality, as well as the recent turn to affect and phenomenology within cultural theory, the authors develop queer, feminist studies of online player cultures in ways that are situated and embodied.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415719704
ISBN-10: 0415719704
Pagini: 246
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Introduction: Into the Game  Jenny Sundén and Malin Sveningsson  1. Go with Your Passion!  Malin Sveningsson  2. The More the Merrier!  Malin Sveningsson  3. The Straight Game  Malin Sveningsson  4. Playing Along  Malin Sveningsson  5. Desires at Play  Jenny Sundén  6. A Feel of Play  Jenny Sundén  7. Coming Home and Coming Out  Jenny Sundén  8. A Queer Eye on Transgressive Play  Jenny Sundén  Closing Chapter: Writing a Twin Ethnography  Malin Sveningsson and Jenny Sundén

Recenzii

"Useful, timely, and accessible... Routledge has published a valuable addition to the growing literature elucidating the experience of often-invisible, often-ignored minorities among the largely homogenousmass of online gamers." - Dorothea Salo, Feminist Collections, Voulme 33(3)

Descriere

How do gender and sexuality come to matter in online game cultures? This book is about female players' passionate encounters within the online game World of Warcraft and its player cultures. Through a "twin ethnography," the authors develop two parallel stories of "straight" versus "queer" cultures of play.