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There are two distinct strands in the literature on gambling : one that focuses on how to play and win the various games of chance and one that focuses on gambling compulsion and addiction. Gambling and Gender forges a new direction, studying gambling as more communication than compulsion, more recreation than deviance, more sociology than psychology. Within that framework it seeks to explore several aspects of gender : How do the gambling behaviors of men and women differ ? How have women adapted to and/or changed the historically male dominance of the gambling arena ? What gambling activities have women claimed as their own and used to develop uniquely female relationships ? How have recent trends in technology and mass media changed the ways in which men and women claim – or reject – their gender identities ? The authors use a variety of research strategies, including content analysis, survey research, interviews, and participative observation, to shed new light on this fascinating subject and to suggest ways to explore it further.