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Who's in the Game? by Terri Toles Patkin

Identity and Intersectionality in Classic Board Games
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Some board games-like Candy Land, Chutes & Ladders, Clue, Guess Who, The Game of Life, Monopoly, Operation and Payday--have popularity spanning generations. But over time, updates to games have created significantly different messages about personal identity and evolving social values. Games offer representations of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, age, ability and social class that reflect the status quo and respond to social change.

Using popular mass-market games, this rhetorical assessment explores board design, game implements (tokens, markers, 3-D elements) and playing instructions. This book argues the existence of board games as markers of an ever-changing sociocultural framework, exploring the nature of play and how games embody and extend societal themes and values.

About the Author
Terri Toles Patkin is a professor of communication at Eastern Connecticut State University. Her research program is eclectic, spanning time frames from prehistoric cave art to social media, and her interest in board games emerges from her long-standing examination of messages encoded in popular culture artifacts.


Book Information
ISBN 9781476676913
Author Terri Toles Patkin
Format Paperback
Page Count 249
Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
Publisher McFarland & Co Inc
Series Studies in Gaming
Weight(grams) 380g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

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Subtitle:
Identity and Intersectionality in Classic Board Games
Series:
Studies in Gaming
Imprint:
McFarland & Co Inc

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