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- Title
- Sex and gender in World of Warcraft: Identities, love, and power
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- University of Waikato
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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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- Research paper
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- Thesis
- Thesis level
- Doctoral
- Date created
- 2015
- Creator
- Todd, Cherie Jane
- URL
- https://hdl.handle.net/10289/9444
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- gender / World of Warcraft / online / identity / relationships / performativity / sexuality
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