Sex and gender in World of Warcraft: Identities, love, and power

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Sex and gender in World of Warcraft: Identities, love, and power

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This thesis examines how gamers construct sex and gender in the online game World of Warcraft (WoW), with a particular focus on connections between intimate relationships and gendered power relations. Every year more people choose to play online games but despite this ‘gaming culture’ continues to be dominated by masculinist discourse that works to marginalise those who do not conform to patriarchal and heteronormative ways of being. This in turn impacts upon the ways in which gamers ‘perform...

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Thesis

Thesis level

Doctoral

Date created

2015

Creator

Todd, Cherie Jane

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/9444

Related subjects

gender / World of Warcraft / online / identity / relationships / performativity / sexuality

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