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Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

2004

Gender studies

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"Two Guns, A Girl And A Playstation™": Gender In The Tomb Raider Series, Marc A. Ouellette Jan 2004

"Two Guns, A Girl And A Playstation™": Gender In The Tomb Raider Series, Marc A. Ouellette

English Faculty Publications

This article considers the combination of game play and narrative which combine to produce cross-gender identifications in video games, a previously underexamined potential for the production of alternate genders, one which calls into question the stability of gender, particularly masculinity, as a construct.