Play like a Feminist. - Shira Chess

Play like a Feminist.

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Buch | Hardcover
184 Seiten
2020
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-04438-7 (ISBN)
31,15 inkl. MwSt
"Play Like a Feminist discusses how play, in a general sense, and video games, more specifically, are of vital importance to feminist thinking"--
Why video games need feminism and feminism needs video games."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. Playing like a feminist offers a new way to think about how humans play --and also a new way to think about how feminists do their feministing. Chess argues that feminism need video games as much as video games need feminism.

Video games, Chess tells us, are primed for change. Roughly half of all players identify as female, and Gamergate galvanized many of gaming's disenfranchised voices. Games themselves are in need of a creative platform-expanding, metaphysical explosion; feminism can make games better. Chess reflects on the importance of play, and playful protest, and how feminist video games can help us rethink the ways that we tell stories. She proposes "Women's Gaming Circles"--which would function like book clubs for gaming--as a way for feminists to take back play. (An appendix offers a blueprint for organizing a gaming circle.) Play and games can be powerful. Chess's goal is for all of us--regardless of gender orientation, ethnicity, ability, social class, or stance toward feminism--to spend more time playing as a tool of radical disruption.

Shira Chess is Associate Professor of Entertainment and Media Studies at the University of Georgia and the author of Ready Player Two.

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 137 x 203 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Freizeit / Hobby
Informatik Software Entwicklung Spieleprogrammierung
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-262-04438-2 / 0262044382
ISBN-13 978-0-262-04438-7 / 9780262044387
Zustand Neuware
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