Queerness in Play

Todd Harper, Meghan Blythe Adams, Nicholas Taylor, Todd Harper, Meghan Blythe Adams, Nicholas Taylor

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9783319905419
• eBook ISBN: 9783319905426
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Cultural & Social Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

Queerness in Play examines the many ways queerness of all kinds—from queer as 'LGBT' to other, less well-covered aspects of the queer spectrum—intersects with games and the social contexts of play. The current unprecedented visibility of queer creators and content comes at a high tide of resistance to the inclusion of those outside a long-imagined cisgender, heterosexual, white male norm. By critically engaging the ways games—as a culture, an industry, and a medium—help reproduce limiting binary formations of gender and sexuality, Queerness in Play contributes to the growing body of scholarship promoting more inclusive understandings of identity, sexuality, and games.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Queer Game Studies: Young But Not New
• Part I. Queer Foundations
• Part II. Representing Queerness
• Part III. Un-gendering Assemblages
• Part IV. No Fear of a Queer Planet: Gaming and Social Futures
• Back Matter