From Barbie To Mortal Kombat : Gender And Computer Games - 98 edition

Cassell, Justine : Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Justine Cassell is Assistant Professor in the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jenkins, Henry : Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Henry Jenkins is Associate Professor of Literature and Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

''[A]n imaginative, original, and complex volume that crystallizes feminist dilemmas regarding the origin and persistence of gender roles. . . . Ultimately this book--pluralistic, experiential, and collaborative--inspires us to search for games that give voice to participants' exploratory and even competitive desires while enabling them to build identities based on the emotional nuances of real life.''

--Sandra Hackman, Women's Review of Books

MIT Press Web Site, December, 2000

Acknowledgments
About the Authors

Part One: The Girls' Games Movement

1 Chess for Girls? Feminism and Computer Games Justine Cassell and Henry Jenkins
2 Computer Games for Girls: What Makes Them Play? Kaveri Subrahmanyam and Patricia M. Greenfield
3 Girl Games and Technological Desire Cornelia Brunner, Dorothy Bennett, and Margaret Honey
4 Video Game Designs by Girls and Boys: Variability and Consistency of Gender Differences Yasmin B. Kafai

Part Two: Interviews

Interviews conducted by Jennifer Glos and Shari Goldin
5 An Interview with Brenda Laurel (Purple Moon)
6 An Interview with Nancie S. Martin (Mattel)
7 An Interview with Heather Kelley (Girl Games)
8 Interviews with Theresa Duncan and Monica Gesue (Chop Suey)
9 An Interview with Lee McEnany Caraher (Sega)
10 An Interview with Marsha Kinder (Intertexts Multimedia)

Part Three: Rethinking the Girls' Games Movement

11 Retooling Play: Dystopia, Dysphoria, and Difference Suzanne de Castell and Mary Bryson
12 ''Complete Freedom of Movement'': Video Games as Gendered Play Spaces Henry Jenkins
13 Storytelling as a Nexus of Change in the Relationship between Gender and Technology: A Feminist Approach to Software Design Justine Cassell
14 Voices from the Combat Zone: Game Grrlz Talk Back

Index