Playing with the Guys: Masculinity and Relationships in Video Games (Paperback)

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1. Essentially Playing: Considering Gender, Sex and Sexuality in Video Games and Game Scholarship 17
Chapter 2. Builders of Boys, Makers of Men: Examining the Ludic Processes of the Masculine Apprenticeship 45
Chapter 3. "Putting some work in": Masculinity, Labor and ­Hypo-ludicity 80
Chapter 4. "I am sworn to carry your burdens": Eliminating and Scapegoating Women in Video Games 111
Chapter 5. "Welcome to the family, son": Maligned and Misunderstood Fathers in "Dadified" Video Games 144
Chapter 6. "It's the terror of knowing": Resurrection, Melancholia and the Elegiac Game 178
Afterword 208
Chapter Notes 213
References 217
Index 239