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  2. Gender representation in video games - Wikipedia

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    Video games can also have an impact on children's attitudes towards gender and gender identity. For example, a study published by Tracy L. Dietz about "Gender Socialization and Aggressive Behavior" [155] found that playing video games with gender-nonconforming characters led to increased acceptance of non-traditional gender roles among children ...

  3. Identity politics - Wikipedia

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    Gender identity politics is an approach that views politics, both in practice and as an academic discipline, as having a gendered nature and that gender is an identity that influences how people think. [64] Politics has become increasingly gender political as formal structures and informal 'rules of the game' have become gendered.

  4. Media and gender - Wikipedia

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    For example, a 2010 content analysis of video games found that "41% of female characters wore revealing clothing and an equal number were partially or totally nude," whereas the male characters were not. [34] In media platforms such as television and video games, women tend to be underrepresented.

  5. Behold, an A-Z List of Gender Identity Terms

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    Gender identity: Gender identity refers to an individual's sense of self as a woman, man, both, neither, somewhere in between, or whatever one's truth is. Gender identity (despite what the gender ...

  6. Sexism and video games - Wikipedia

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    However, the changing demographics that have been seen in the video game community (an increasing proportion of people who play video games are, as it appears, female. [29]), have led to certain consequences. The largest change in terms of who plays video games has been that of gender proportions.

  7. Gender identity - Wikipedia

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    Gender identity is the personal sense of one's own gender. [1] Gender identity can correlate with a person's assigned sex or can differ from it. In most individuals, the various biological determinants of sex are congruent and consistent with the individual's gender identity. [2]

  8. Women and video games - Wikipedia

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    The concept that video games are a form of art has begun to gain force in the latter half of the 2000s, with the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts recognizing games as a form of art in May 2011, [173] for example. In viewing video games as cultural artifacts and the industry as a cultural industry, the disenfranchisement of women from the ...

  9. Gender polarization - Wikipedia

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    Boys are encouraged to play with toy trucks. Girls are encouraged to play with dolls. In sociology, gender polarization is a concept created by American psychologist Sandra Bem which states that societies tend to define femininity and masculinity as polar opposite genders, such that male-acceptable behaviors and attitudes are not seen as appropriate for women, and vice versa.