ABSTRACT
This chapter provides information on the context, which challenges to think about gender, sexuality, and mass culture together with hybrid forms. Surprisingly frequently, scholars and casual critics alike have found ways to denigrate the kind of culture they don't like by writing it off as somehow associated with the feminine, and this has a direct effect on how we implicitly gender mass culture practices and products. High art likes to think of itself as ahead of its time, in contrast to mass culture, which is imagined to be retrograde. In any case, mass culture seems to be cathected with fleshy bodies, male or female, ethnically marked and racially coded, while high art often attempts to erase the signs of race, and gender, while cleaning up the bodies and putting them in order. The hybrid space of the Internet, with its chaotic visual potential, makes erasing the body more challenging than in print-based culture.
