Gaming’s Uneven Progress Toward Diverse Female Figures

A vocal group that says women in video games are being defeminized wants to return to 1990s babes like Lara Croft.


Lara Croft, one of the video game industry’s most hypersexualized characters, in Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness (2003). Credit Eidos Interactive, via Associated Press

Soraya Murray, a professor of Film and Digital Media here at UC Santa Cruz, was interviewed about female representation in video games. Women are often overtly sexualized in video games, and there have been calls for more diversity in the gaming industry.

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Last modified: Oct 23, 2024