02738cam a22003614a 4500 16859257 BD-DhUL 20161229110659.0 110706s2011 nyu b 001 0 eng 2011027170 9780415897662 (hardback) DLC DLC BD-DhUL pcc GV1469.15 .S86 2012 793.932 SUG SOC026000 SOC010000 SOC032000 bisacsh Sundén, Jenny, 1973- Gender and sexuality in online game cultures : passionate play / Jenny Sundén, Malin Sveningsson. New York : Routledge, 2012. xii, 234 p. ; 24 cm. Routledge advances in feminist studies and intersectionality ; 8 Includes bibliographical references and index. "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"-- Provided by publisher. Internet games Social aspects. Internet and women. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory. bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies. bisacsh Sveningsson, Malin. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK xj07 2011-07-06 xj07 2011-07-06 ONIX xn05 2012-02-03 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver. 143698 143698 0 0 ddc 0 793_932000000000000_SUG 0 NFIC 270372 DUL DUL GEN 2016-12-29 Purchased 793.932 SUG 483853 2016-12-29 2016-12-29 BK