Play Like a Feminist.

An important new voice provides an empowering look at why video games need feminism—and why all of us should make space for more play in our lives.

 
In this provocative and enlightening book, Shira Chess urges us to play like feminists. Playing like a feminist is empowering and disruptive—it exceeds the boundaries of gender yet still advocates for gender equality. Roughly half of all players identify as female, and “Gamergate” galvanized many of gaming’s disenfranchised voices. Chess argues games are in need of a creative platform-expanding, metaphysical explosion—and feminism can take us there. She reflects on the importance of play, playful protest, and how feminist video games can help us rethink the ways that we tell stories. Feminism needs video games as much as video games need feminism.
 
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.

Product details

• Authors: Anonymous, Shira Chess, Shira/ Anonymous (NRT) Chess, Chess Shira, Kishonna Gray, Christopher Paul, Anastasia Salter
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9780262044387
• ISBN: 978-0-262-04438-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Playful Thinking
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Hobbies, quizzes & games, Feminism & feminist theory, Hobbies, quizzes and games, Feminism and feminist theory, GAMES & ACTIVITIES / Video & Mobile