MAI Feminism & Visual Culture: Focus Issue Fourteen: Feminist Pedagogies in Games (Autumn 2024)

Misiak, Anna ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7153-944X, Sardi, Houman, Rouse, Rebecca, Westborg, Josefin and Carron Youmans, Amy (2024) MAI Feminism & Visual Culture: Focus Issue Fourteen: Feminist Pedagogies in Games (Autumn 2024). [Journal]

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Abstract / Summary

We offer the articles in this focus issue for your consideration.

First, you will find a portfolio of contributions about teaching games design—a collection of expert voices from feminists who have worked in this male-dominated field. Commissioned by our guest editors, Rebecca Rouse, Josefin Westborg and Amy Corron Youmans, these texts illuminate how games of all sorts, so popular and instrumental when it comes to socialisation today, still cannot depart from internalised patriarchal gender norms and expectations. As much as such observations add to our concerns, we cheer our games authors for their future-orientated approach and the many proposed strategies to address and change the old-school teaching methods, to make critical interventions and raise awareness of their students and colleagues.

Similarly, we applaud other authors included in the second half of this focus issue for their courageous articulation of thoughts on film, photography, art, books, and music that centre on women’s experiences, which tend to be dismissed or treated as a lower priority by ego-driven politicians. Thus, we present you with a few mind-stimulating visual culture evaluations and confessional accounts that pertain to women’s health, ageing, abortion, sexual consent, matricentric cultures and other somewhat naturalised gender expectations that stand in the way of equality across the globe.

Item Type:	Journal
ISSN:	2003-167x
Subjects:	Film & Television Creative Art & Design > Game Art Performing Arts Photography Creative Art & Design > Photography Research
Courses by Department:	The School of Film & Television
Depositing User:	Anna Misiak
Date Deposited:	16 Dec 2024 14:33
Last Modified:	16 Dec 2024 14:33
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/5853

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