ABSTRACT
While it might be said that the early 1990s constitute an important moment for studies on issues of gender and sexuality in Latin America, rather than a single "turn", another trope to help map the past quarter century in these areas might be that of "twists". Since gender and sexuality studies have followed sometimes converging but sometimes very separate paths, it is not always possible to think of them as developing with any synchronicity. In the context of Latin American studies in the metropolitan academy, the gender and sexuality turn took hold gradually, with an initial impetus from the publication of a handful of high-profile collections of essays by both established scholars and a new generation of critics. Agendas on sexuality in Latin America have been concerned with advancing rights, and also with issues of capitalism, and bodies with a profound critique of modernization and liberalism.
