ABSTRACT

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture sets its sights on all variety of pop cultural phenomena from across the Américas as it intersects with issues of gender and sexuality in terms of their creation, consumption, and interpretation. The chapters mostly focus on excavating gender, sexuality, and pop culture in the 20th and 21st centuries, with a few focusing on earlier historical periods. Each of the chapters carves out its own scholarly path and also shares some of the following scholarly positions and impulses: