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Narrative, Body and gaze; Representations of Action Heroines in Console Video Games and Gamer Subjectivity
Gender and video games has become a hot topic for scholars and lay people a like in recent years. Despite this universal interest in the subject, little has been done to document the way in which formal features of video games affect the ways in which women are represented in-games or situate video …
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<i>Sucker Punch</i> and the Political Problem of Fantasy to Female Representation
One of the main tasks of feminism in the twenty first century is to address the way sexual fantasies of women limit the ability to achieve real world change in gender relations and gain political equality. Fantasy, as the means by which capitalism operates (i.e., it is through the use of fantasy …