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Article: From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games
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- Journal of American & Comparative Cultures
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- October 1, 2000
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Book Reviews
From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games. Justine Cassell and Henry Jenkins, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998. 360 pp., 57 illustrations, 26 color. Cloth: $35.00.
Boys and girls are different; of this, there is no question. But how does the biological and social construct of gender relate to computer games and, more importantly, to our computer-driven culture? In From Barbie to Moral Kombat: Gender and Computer Games, editors Justine Cassell and Henry Jenkins address this question. The book grew out of a one-day symposium on gender and computer games sponsored by Women's Studies at MIT that was organized to bring together both game industry representatives ...