Beyond Binaries: Sex, Sexualities and Gender in the Lusophone World - Paperback

by Cláudia Pazos-Alonso (Other), Paulo De Medeiros (Other), Paulo Pepe (Editor)

This volume investigates queer Lusophone literature and cinema, examining how queer identities are constructed through different types of cultural production. It explores the representation of gender in popular culture and the centrality of literature and cinema in the subversion of heteronormative social norms.

Author Biography

Paulo Pepe is a Lecturer in Portuguese Studies at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Do Pop ao Teatro de Rua: Revoluções Ibéricas de Género em António Variações e José Pérez Ocaña and has also published articles on aspects of gender in the Iberian context.

Ana Raquel Fernandes lectures in English at the Universidade Europeia in Lisbon and is a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies. She is the author of What about the Rogue? (Honourable Mention, ESSE Book Awards, 2012) and has also published on aspects of British and Portuguese contemporary fiction.