Week 8: Girls and Cultural Productions (Driscoll Part 3)

I was wondering what to do for the spatial analysis. I wanted to analyze a toy shop exclusively meant for girls, if there be any, or, otherwise, I thought an exclusive girls section of a children’s toy shop would do just as fine. Being new to State College, I did not know much about the area and so I decided to look online, hoping to find a children’s toy store in the State College area that could be reached without a car. When the google search revealed nothing, I decided to change the search string and searched for “girls games” instead. What I found was several gaming websites like www.girlgogames.com and www.girlsgames.com, dedicated exclusively to girl gamers. I also found a guysgames.com meant for boy gamers and several other websites for girlgamers. A quick look at the ‘Top 10’ games for girls in one of the two gaming site listed above, revealed 3 cooking games, 4 Dressing (or Dress Up) games, 2 make-over (Hair and Nails) games, and one kissing game.