A short introduction to women in historical and archaeological video games

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. A short introduction to women in historical and archaeological video games 1
4. Assassins and the Creed: A look at the Assassin’s Creed series, Ubisoft, and women in the video games industry 25
5. Expectations vs. reality: Perceived accuracy when women are in historical video games 57
6. “The hardest battles are fought in the mind”: The role of women in Viking Age games 75
7. Warriors and Waifus: Community responses to historical accuracy and the representation of women in Total War: Three Kingdoms 101
8. Nefertiti – beauty, Pharaoh, and murderous mummy in Assassin’s Creed Origins – The Curse of the Pharaohs 139
9. Senua’s psychosis and the stigma of mental health 171
10. Playing (with) Gisla in Mount & Blade 195
11. National trauma, powerlessness, and female protagonists in East Asian historical survival horror 225
12. “Make him a woman:” Gender and witches in Darklands 243
13. Androgynous artefacts: The princess as heirloom in The Legend of Zelda franchise 269
14. Uncharted heroines: Women, popular archaeology, and digital games 291
15. Fourth wave feminism in video games: An analysis of Lara Croft 319
16. Not male, not pale, and definitely not stale: Aliyah Elasra and archaeology in Heaven’s Vault 341
17. List of contributors 361
18. Index 365