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This article explores issues of gender and race in Colombian contemporary media and culture, highlighting the connections between these issues and the broader political context of Colombia under Álvaro Uribe's administration.

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This article provides a reading of contemporary Colombian culture from within various theoretical frameworks including feminism, theories of subjection, and cultural studies.

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This page is a summary of: “Freakish Fat,” “Wretched Black”: Female abject beings in contemporary Colombian media and culture, Feminist Media Studies, December 2014, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2014.994099.
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