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Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures: Passionate Play

Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures: Passionate Play - Hardcover

by Jenny Sundén, Malin Sveningsson
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Availability:In StockContributor:Malin SveningssonSeries:Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and IntersectionalityTheme:Interdisciplinary Studies/Women's StudiesPublish date:12/21/2011Pages:246
Languages:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9780415897662ISBN-10:0415897661UPC:9780415897662Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Feminism & Feminist Theory, Sociology, Gender StudiesSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.459Product ID:SC003Y2N9A

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.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9780415897662ISBN-10:0415897661UPC:9780415897662Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Feminism & Feminist Theory, Sociology, Gender StudiesSize:9.10 x 6.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.459Product ID:SC003Y2N9A

Jenny Sundén is Associate Professor in the Department of Media Technology at the School of Computer Science and Communication, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm.

Malin Sveningsson is Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University.
Publisher: Routledge

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Malin Sveningsson

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Jenny Sundén, Malin Sveningsson

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