Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming

by Jennifer Y. Sun, Carrie Heeter, Jill Denner

Book Overview

Girls and women as game players and game designers in the new digital landscape of massively multiplayer online games, "second lives," "modding," serious games, and casual games.

Ten years after the groundbreaking From Barbie to Mortal Kombat highlighted the ways gender stereotyping and related social and economic issues permeate digital game play, the number of women and girl gamers has risen considerably. Despite this, gender...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262516063
• ISBN13: 9780262516068
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher