When girls turn into men and boys into women : a postfeminist reading of The Last of Us and BioShock

This study explores the ways in which certain societal anxieties regarding femininity and masculinity surface in post-apocalyptic video games BioShock (2007 2K Games) and The last of us (2013 Naughty Dog). A postfeminist perspective is employed in order to explore the privileging of so-called ‘masc...

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Main Author: Mentz, Karen
Other Authors: Lauwrens, Jennifer
Language:en
Published: University of Pretoria 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2263/51383
Mentz, K 2016, When girls turn into men and boys into women : a postfeminist reading of The Last of Us and BioShock, MA Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/51383>