The women in your life need more leisure that they can get lost in. They need leisure that is overwhelming with identity play, puzzles, art and complex narratives. Your mother deserves to get some play—and you should give it to her.
Author: Shira Chess
Shira Chess, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Entertainment and Media Studies in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Ready Player Two: Women Gamers and Designed Identity and co-author of Folklore, Horror Stories and the Slender Man: The Development of an Internet Mythology. Her research has been published in Critical Studies in Media Communication; The Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media; Feminist Media Studies; New Media & Society; Games and Culture and Information, Communication & Society, as well as several essay collections.