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Children, Gender, Video Games

Towards a Relational Approach to Multimedia

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  • © 2007

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  1. Valerie Walkerdine
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Valerie Walkerdine
    Pages 1-15

  3. Video Game Research

    • Valerie Walkerdine
    Pages 16-29

  4. Video Games and Childhood Masculinity

    • Valerie Walkerdine
    Pages 30-46

  5. ‘Remember Not to Die’: Girls Playing Video Games

    • Valerie Walkerdine
    Pages 47-72

  6. Rethinking Violence

    • Valerie Walkerdine
    Pages 73-100

  7. Regulating Game Play: ‘Clingy Sooky Mummy’s Boys’ and Other Personas

    • Valerie Walkerdine
    Pages 101-136

  8. Video Games in a Global Market

    • Valerie Walkerdine
    Pages 137-151

  9. Becoming a Player

    • Valerie Walkerdine
    Pages 152-170

  10. Playing the Game

    • Valerie Walkerdine
    Pages 171-207

  11. Conclusion

    • Valerie Walkerdine
    Pages 208-218

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 219-235
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About this book

Placing gender at the centre of the debate about young children and multimedia, particularly video games, the book develops a relational approach to game play using an account of affect. The book explores central issues of violence and parental regulation and argues that economic relations are not remote from the micro relations of playing.

About the author

VALERIE WALKERDINE is Professor of Psychology in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK. Her previous publications include Growing up Girl (with Helen Lucey and June Melody), Mass Hysteria: Critical Psychology and Media Studies (with Lisa Blackman), Daddy's Girl: Young Girls and Popular Culture and The Practice of Reason. She is editor of Critical Psychology. She is also an installation artist.

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