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Lara Croft: feminist icon or cyberbimbo? On the limits of textual analysis (2002)
Journal Article
Kennedy, H. W. (2002). Lara Croft: feminist icon or cyberbimbo? On the limits of textual analysis

As the title suggests, the feminist reception of Lara Croft as a game character has been ambivalent to say the least. The question itself presupposes an either/or answer, thereby neatly expressing the polarities around which most popular media and ac... Read More about Lara Croft: feminist icon or cyberbimbo? On the limits of textual analysis.

The sexual geographies of reading in post-war London (2002)
Journal Article
Hornsey, R. (2002). The sexual geographies of reading in post-war London. Gender, Place and Culture, 9(4), 371-384. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369022000024650

This article examines the way in which the spaces, practices and pleasures of reading books became inscribed within a heteronormative geographical imaginary in Britain after the end of the Second World War. The active state provision of cultural welf... Read More about The sexual geographies of reading in post-war London.