Queerness in Play

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Harper, Todd (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Adams, Meghan Blythe (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Taylor, Nicholas (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Games in Context
• Subjects: Culture-Study and teaching.; Culture.; Technology.; Gender.; Digital media.; Communication.; Popular Culture.; Popular Science in Cultural and Media Studies.; Culture and Technology.; Culture and Gender.; Digital/New Media.; Media and Communication.; Popular Culture .
• Physical Description: XVII, 279 p. 20 illus., 18 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319905426
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-90542-6

Queerness in Play examines the many ways queerness of all kinds-from queer as 'LGBT' to other, less well-covered aspects of the queer spectrum-intersects with games and the social contexts of play. The current unprecedented visibility of queer creators and content comes at a high tide of resistance to the inclusion of those outside a long-imagined cisgender, heterosexual, white male norm. By critically engaging the ways games-as a culture, an industry, and a medium-help reproduce limiting binary formations of gender and sexuality, Queerness in Play contributes to the growing body of scholarship promoting more inclusive understandings of identity, sexuality, and games.