GSS 371: Gender & Geek Culture

Audrey Anable's "Casual Games, Time Management, and the Work of Affect" challenges the "gendering" of casual games m...

Derek Johnson’s article, “Participation is Magic: Collaboration, Authorial Legitimacy, and the Audience Function”, uses aspects of the Bron...

In her article, Erica Kubik discusses the dichotomy of hardcore vs. casual gamers and how that distinction often happens along gender and r...

            Erica Kubik’s “Masters of Technology: Defining the Hardcore/Casual Dichotomy in Video Game Culture” article is, at its core, ba...

In “Cyberspace Meets Domestic Space,” Marsha Cassidy explores how in the 1990s, marketing for personal computers increasingly targeted wome...

Angela McRobbie introduces a new concept to the study of gender: post-feminism. According to her text, feminists nowad...

In her article “The Gender Dynamics of the Japanese Media Mix”, Mizuko Ito takes an interesting position of analyzing the gendering seen in...

In Anne Allison’s “Fierce Flesh,” she discusses the powerful and feminine relationship in Sailor Moon : the Sailors are fierce action heroi...

In Cuties in Japan , Sharon Kinsella explores the ideologies and practices of ‘cuteness’ in Japan. Since the 1980s, Kawaii style has becom...