Bodies and Biases Sexualities in Hispanic Cultures and Literatures David William Foster and Roberto Reis, editors		$26.00 Paper ISBN: 0-8166-2771-1 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-2771-4
A bold look at representations of sexual behavior in Hispanic culture. Looking at a wide range of cultural practices and artifacts, including television, popular music, and pornography, Bodies and Biases addresses representations of sexual behavior and collective identity, homosexuality, and ideologies of gender in historical and contemporary Hispanic culture. Topics include cross-dressing on the seventeenth-century Spanish stage, gay life in Cuba and Mexico, a butch-femme reading of Peri-Rossi's Solitario de amor, pornography, and queer and lesbian spaces. Contributors: Silvia Bermúdez, Dário Borim Jr., Herbert J. Brant, Lou Charnon-Deutsch,Ana García Chichester, Brad S. Epps, Gustavo Geirola, Mary S. Gossy, J. Eduardo Jaramillo-Zuluaga, Marina Pérez de Mendiola, Salvador A. Oropesa, James A. Parr, Javier Aparicio Maydeu, Claudia Schaefer-Rodríguez, Robert ter Horst. David William Foster is Regents' Professor of Spanish and Women's Studies at Arizona State University, where he is director of Spanish graduate studies. Roberto Reis (1949-94) was professor of Brazilian studies at the University of Minnesota. 424 pages | 5 7/8 x 9 | 1996 Hispanic Issues Series, volume 13