Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1: Introduction: Reframing Hegemonic Conceptions of Women and Feminism in Gaming Culture -- Patriarchy and Power in Games -- Bibliography -- Part I: Neither Virgin...
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1: Introduction: Reframing Hegemonic Conceptions of Women and Feminism in Gaming Culture -- Patriarchy and Power in Games -- Bibliography -- Part I: Neither Virgin Nor Vixen: Representations of Women -- 2: Women by Women: A Gender Analysis of Sierra Titles by Women Designers -- Background and Definitions -- Jane Jensen's Gabriel Knight: Saying Is Not Doing -- Lori Cole's Quest for Glory I: Restoring the Patriarchy -- Roberta Williams's Kings Quest: Learning to Be Feminist -- Roberta Williams's Phantasmagoria: A Feminist Allegory -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- 3: The Material Undermining of Magical Feminism in BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea -- Elizabeth the Magical Feminist -- Agonistic Engines and Logics -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 4: From Sirens to Cyborgs: The Media Politics of the Female Voice in Games and Game Cultures -- Embodiment/Physicality -- Vocal (cis)-cipline -- Technologizing the Voice -- Disembodiment -- Gender Coding and Voice Typologies -- Female Masculinity/Joan of Arc -- The Service Voice/Sexy Female Robot -- The Scream Queen/Damsel in Distress -- Transgressions/Transformations -- The Public Voice of Women -- Bibliography -- 5: The Magnificent Memory Machine: The Nancy Drew Series and Female History -- Heroine of Her Time(s) -- Discovering the Historical Woman -- I've Always Been the Queen: Nancy's Female Foils -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 6: The Sexual Politics of Video Game Graphics -- Understanding the Patriarchal Legacy of Video Game Culture: Developer Demographics, Market Demand, and Platform Design -- From Action to Object: The Evolution of the Visual Pleasure of Video Game Play -- The Sexual Obsession with Polygons -- Conclusion: A Crisis of Technical Imagination -- Bibliography -- Part II: All Made Up: Gendering Assemblages.
