"Playful in tone but intellectually rigorous, Side Dishes adopts culinary metaphors to expand the 'menu' typically offered in studies of Latin American women's cultural production. In her analysis of film, stand-up comedy, science fiction, cartoons and more, Melissa Fitch outlines a bold new direction for both feminist and cultural studies focused on female sexuality." -Suzanne Ferriss, co-editor of Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction "Melissa Fitch serves up an enticing array of Latina 'side dishes' in this collection of broadly interdisciplinary essays. Her menu includes chapters on Latin...

Global Tangos: Travels in the Transnational Imaginary argues against the hackneyed rose-in-mouth cliches of Argentine tango, demonstrating how the dance may be used as a way to understand transformations around the world that have taken place as a result of two defining features of globalization: transnationalism and the rise of social media. Global Tangos demonstrates the cultural impact of Argentine tango in the world by assembling an unusual array of cultural narratives created in almost thirty countries, all of which show how tango has mixed and mingled in the global imaginary, sometimes...