“Everyone Can Make Games!”: The post-feminist context of women in digital game production
“Everyone Can Make Games!”: The post-feminist context of women in digital game production
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“每个人都可以制作游戏！”：数字游戏制作中女性的后女权主义背景
DOI：
10.1080/14680777.2014.958867
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
S. Fisher
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作者：
A. Harvey;S. Fisher
经过十多年的学术研究和有据可查的骚扰，性别歧视和其他形式的排斥和边缘化，数字游戏文化目前是高度关注的对象和与多样性和包容性相关的话语。本文认为，这种转变的背景下，特别注重性别为重点的包容性为基础的行动，在游戏中的女性孵化器的形式，后女权主义话语，和数字游戏制作的新自由主义背景之间的关系。与流行的反女权主义和类似的“反弹”情绪相反，数字游戏行业内的后女权主义的表达提供了对保守的生产文化中引入变革行动所固有的紧张局势的见解，特别是对行业中的女性。同时，后女性主义思潮的矛盾和张力也使得一些行动得以在颠覆这一逻辑的同时发挥作用。本文通过对北美数字游戏社区中三位典型的后女性主义代言人的简要思考，探讨了后女性主义在游戏文化和生产中的差距和矛盾所带来的挑战和机遇。它的结论是谨慎和乐观的平等措施，指出未来的研究和行动的方向。
After over a decade of scholarly research and well-documented harassment, sexism, and other forms of exclusion and marginalization, digital games culture is currently the object of heightened attention and discourse related to diversity and inclusion. This paper considers the context of this shift with a particular focus on the relationship between gender-focused inclusivity-based action in the form of women-in-games incubators, post-feminist discourse, and the neoliberal context of digital games production. As opposed to rife anti-feminism and similar “backlash” sentiments, articulations of post-feminism within the digital game industry provide insights into the tensions inherent in introducing action for change within a conservative culture of production, particularly for women in the industry. At the same time, the contradictions and tensions of the post-feminist ethos allow for actions that function through this logic while subverting it. Through a brief consideration of three exemplary post-feminist articulations by visible female figures in the North American digital games community, this article explores the challenges and opportunities presented by the gaps and contradictions of post-feminism in games culture and production. It concludes with equal measures of caution and optimism, indicating future directions for study and activism.