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Subject: Cybermind/ LARA CROFT: Cyber Heroine (fwd)
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 23:56:23 -0400 (EDT)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:46:25 -0500 From: Stacy Zellmann <zellm003@umn.edu> To: sondheim@panix.com Subject: Cybermind/ LARA CROFT: Cyber Heroine Dear ListServ Administrator: Please post this to Cybermind. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the book for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Stacy Zellmann Direct Marketing Manager University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 612-627-1934 http://www.upress.umn.edu Avatar of girl power or sexual plaything? The ambiguity of being Lara. LARA CROFT: Cyber Heroine Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky Translated by Dominic J. Bonfiglio Foreword by Sue-Ellen Case University of Minnesota Press | 128 pages | 2005 ISBN 0-8166-4390-3 | hardcover | $53.95 ISBN 0-8166-4391-1 | paperback | $17.95 Electronic Mediations Series, volume 14 Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky's groundbreaking study examines Lara Croft as a cyber heroine�a female body ubiquitously inhabited by game players, an icon of both female strength and male objectification, and the virtual future of fame. Drawing on feminist and cultural studies, Deuber-Mankowsky sees Croft as symptomatic of the new media environment and its tendency to erase all qualitative difference, even sexual difference. For more information, including and excerpt and the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/D/deuber_lara.html For more information on the Electronic Mediations Series: http://www.upress.umn.edu/byseries/electronic.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html