It’s been nearly a year and a half in the making, but it’s now officially published: the Oxford Bibliography of Feminist and Queer Game Studies.
This is a massive — and hopefully massively useful! — resource, with overviews in fifteen sub-areas and 150 citations, each with a description of the text. The bibliography is a collaboration of Adrienne Shaw (our first author and fearless leader), Alexandra Agloro, Josef Nguyen, Amanda Phillips, and myself. It’s peer-reviewed just like a journal article would be. Quite an undertaking.
The bibliography is a living document, so we can come back and make additions. It was also surprisingly hard to limit ourselves to 150 citations. There is so much great work out there that brings feminist and queer perspectives to game studies. We built the list in early 2018, so there’s some newer work that slipped by, but feel free to check out my queer game studies reading list for a supplemental list.
Here are some of the subject areas we cover in the bibliography:
– Feminist Theory & Games
– Queer Theory & Games
– Critical Race Theory & Games
– Game Design
– Platform Studies
– Transmedia
– Feminist Ethnography
– Player Practices
– Performance
– Sex & Sexuality
– Gendered Play
– Harassment & Toxic Gaming Cultures
