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Play like a feminist / Shira Chess.

By: Chess, Shira [author.].
Contributor(s): IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.] | Recorded Books, Inc.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2020]Description: 1 PDF.Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262360432.Subject(s): Feminism and video games | Women video gamers | Video games -- Social aspects | Women -- Recreation -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Electronic books.DDC classification: 794.8082 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- On Thinking Playfully -- Who This Book Is For -- A Note about Feminism -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Feminism and Why Play? -- 1 Playing like a Girl -- 2 PWNing Leisure -- 3 Play to Protest -- 4 Gaming Feminism -- 5 Gaming in Circles -- Conclusion: Play More -- Appendix: Blueprint for Starting Your Own Gaming Circle -- Notes -- Index
Summary: An important new voice provides a riveting look at why video games need feminism and why all of us should make space for more play in our lives. "You play like a girl": it's meant to be an insult, accusing a player of subpar, un-fun playing. If you're a girl, and you grow up, do you "play like a woman"--whatever that means' In this provocative and enlightening book, Shira Chess urges us to play like feminists. Furthermore, she urges us to play video games like feminists. Playing like a feminist is empowering and disruptive; it exceeds the boundaries of gender yet still advocates for gender equality. Feminism need video games as much as video games need feminism.
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- On Thinking Playfully -- Who This Book Is For -- A Note about Feminism -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Feminism and Why Play? -- 1 Playing like a Girl -- 2 PWNing Leisure -- 3 Play to Protest -- 4 Gaming Feminism -- 5 Gaming in Circles -- Conclusion: Play More -- Appendix: Blueprint for Starting Your Own Gaming Circle -- Notes -- Index

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An important new voice provides a riveting look at why video games need feminism and why all of us should make space for more play in our lives. "You play like a girl": it's meant to be an insult, accusing a player of subpar, un-fun playing. If you're a girl, and you grow up, do you "play like a woman"--whatever that means' In this provocative and enlightening book, Shira Chess urges us to play like feminists. Furthermore, she urges us to play video games like feminists. Playing like a feminist is empowering and disruptive; it exceeds the boundaries of gender yet still advocates for gender equality. Feminism need video games as much as video games need feminism.

Also available in print.

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