Routledge Companion to Gender Sex and Latin American Culture

<p><em>The Routledge Companion to Gender Sex and Latin American Culture</em> is the first comprehensive volume to explore the intersections between gender sexuality and the creation consumption and interpretation of popular culture in the Américas.</p><p></p><p>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 <i>lotería </i>card games news web and digital media.</p>