ABSTRACT

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses on excavating gender, sexuality, and pop culture in the 20th and 21st centuries, with a few focusing on earlier historical periods. It comprises the routledge companion to gender, sex and Latin American Culture continue to deepen and broaden the scholarship on Latin American pop cultural phenomena, especially as it intersects with issues of gender and sexuality. The book seeks to provide on-the-ground alternative approaches to so-called high culture and low, or pop culture, and how they work within local Latin American contexts and beyond. It provides a critical, interpretive look at a given area of Latin American pop cultural studies, with a sharp focus on issues of gender and sexuality, including areas that have received scant attention, for example, pop cultural phenomena that consider androgynous, lesbian, and bisexual identities.