The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture Contributor(s): Aldama, Frederick Luis (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1138894958 ISBN-13: 9781138894952 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $266.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Gender Studies - History | Latin America - South America |
Dewey: 980 |
LCCN: 2017060230 |
Series: Routledge Companions to Gender |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.9" W x 9.8" (2.15 lbs) 452 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture is the first comprehensive volume to explore the intersections between gender, sexuality, and the creation, consumption, and interpretation of popular culture in the Américas. The chapters seek to enrich our understanding of the role of pop culture in the everyday lives of its creators and consumers, primarily in the 20th and 21st centuries. They reveal how popular culture expresses the historical, social, cultural, and political commonalities that have shaped the lives of peoples that make up the Américas, and also highlight how pop culture can conform to and solidify existing social hierarchies, whilst on other occasions contest and resist the status quo. Front and center in this collection are issues of gender and sexuality, making visible the ways in which subjects who inhabit intersectional identities (sex, gender, race, class) are othered, as well as demonstrating how these same subjects can, and do, use pop-cultural phenomena in self-affirmative and progressively transformative ways. Topics covered in this volume include TV, film, pop and performance art, hip-hop, dance, slam poetry, gender-fluid religious ritual, theater, stand-up comedy, graffiti, videogames, photography, graphic arts, sports spectacles, comic books, sci-fi and other genre novels, lotería card games, news, web, and digital media. |