Playing with the Guys

Marc A. Ouellette is an award-winning educator who teaches cultural and gender studies at Old Dominion University, where he is the Learning Games Initiative Research Fellow. Series editor Matthew Wilhelm Kapell teaches American studies, anthropology, and writing at Pace University in New York.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Essentially Playing: Considering Gender, Sex and Sexuality in Video Games and Game Scholarship

Chapter 2. Builders of Boys, Makers of Men: Examining the Ludic Processes of the Masculine Apprenticeship

Chapter 3. “Putting some work in”: Masculinity, Labor and ­Hypo-ludicity

Chapter 4. “I am sworn to carry your burdens”: Eliminating and Scapegoating Women in Video Games

Chapter 5. “Welcome to the family, son”: Maligned and Misunderstood Fathers in “Dadified” Video Games

Chapter 6. “It’s the terror of knowing”: Resurrection, Melancholia and the Elegiac Game

Afterword

Chapter Notes

References

Index