Shira Chess is Associate Professor of Entertainment and Media Studies at the University of Georgia and the author of Ready Player Two.
In this highly readable volume, Chess (Univ. of Georgia) considers
why video games should pay mind to feminism, and why feminism
should in turn pay mind to gamers...Chess grounds her arguments in
an array of theoretical frameworks, giving readers a gateway into
many areas of game studies. One hopes that this accessible and
empowering book will inspire more gamers to play like feminists and
feminists to play more.
-CHOICE Play like a Feminist. is a crucial contribution
to conversations around gaming, power, and labor. Chess shows us
all the importance of reclaiming games as a feminist act and
provides a blueprint for how feminists of all ages can approach
them in new and joyful ways.
- Adrienne Shaw, Associate Professor, Temple University, and author
of Gaming at the Edge This book is a hopeful and upbeat foray
into the intersection of feminism and games, with an activist bent.
I love the idea of Gaming Circles -- as a games researcher who has
spent a lifetime 'playing like a girl, ' I may take Chess up on the
suggestion of circling up more people in my life outside the narrow
bounds of 'gamer' toward a richer and more diverse dialog around
this important cultural form.
- Katherine Isbister, Professor of Computational Media, School
of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz; author of
How Games Move Us; Founding Fellow, Higher Education Video
Game Alliance
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