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Andraste's Gadfly: A Dragon Age and Philosophy Podcast
Episode Five: No More Hip Sway!
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In this episode, Kira and Jill discuss the way gender is represented across all three Dragon Age games. We consider character creation, gender roles and gender and power in Thedas, the performance of gender in the game, and gender identity.

References:

de Beauvoir, Simone (1953) The Second Sex, translated by H.M. Parshley, New York: Knopf.

Richardson, Sarah S., (2012) “Sexing the X: How the X became the ‘Female Chromosome'” Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Vol. 37 No. 4