Books in the Critical studies in Latin American culture series

Over the last decade, visibility and sexuality have become a major theme in Spanish and Cuban cinema, literature and art. This book explores this development in the light of contemporary history and recent theoretical accounts of sight by writers, including Paul Virilio and Teresa de Lauretis.

Challenging the stereotypical images of the dominating male and the subservient woman, this book addresses the variety of representations of gender in Latin American culture. The essays present ethnographic material from Mexico city to the highlands of Ecuador.