Playing the Sims 2 : constructing and negotiating woman computer game player identities through the practice of skinning

Despite some remarkable shifts in gender demographics of game players during the last decade, computer games remain male-gendered media. Engagement in such a culture, this work suggests, is characterised by confusion and incoherence for women players who are simultaneously taking part in male domina...

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Main Author: Wirman, Hanna Elina
Published: University of the West of England, Bristol 2011
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.557152