In the ongoing debates concerning the emergence of game studies, ludologist approaches often dismiss or marginalize narrative and visual elements of games while privileging games as formal systems of rules and game play mechanics. Indeed, the visual representation of games is frequently gendered—for example, when Espen Aarseth dismisses the visual importance of Lara Croft or when Chris Crawford...

We researched the impact of gendered pedagogical agents on student attitudes for math, motivation and achievement in math, within the context of an adaptive tutoring software for high school mathematics. Learning companions emphasize perseverance by valuing effort in challenging tasks. They are also empathetic, as they reflect students’ emotional states. The results suggest that, across two stu...

The virtually unprecedented popularity of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) in the United States and England was no less marked in France, as evidenced among other things by the commercial success of the eleven French translations that were produced within the period of ten months after its original publication. This and other indications of the significance of Stowe's novel for ...

This article explores the profoundly gendered nature of the split between the disciplines of economics and sociology that took place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, emphasizing implications for current efforts to bring the fields more closely together. Drawing on historical documents and feminist studies of science, it investigates the gendered processes underlying the divergence of ...

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In the context of outbreak Covid-19 pandemic, female medical staff constituted a large proportion frontline healthcare workers in China, with 50% doctors and over 90% nurses being women. this paper, we aim to examine how these were represented at start pandemic online news reports posted on one China’s most popular social media platforms, Weibo. draw upon corpus-based critical discourse analysi...

Feminist theories in management and organization studies, each with their own ontological epistemological assumptions, offer critical perspectives of the status quo to challenge our idea progress discipline, yet there is limited engagement ideas, theories, or practices from lived experiences Global South women. Decolonial feminism engages debates pertaining coloniality/modernity indigenous iden...