HISTORY 404: Women, Gender and Sexuality in Latin America

Course Description

This course studies women, gender and sexuality in Latin America from the eve of conquest by the Portuguese and the Spanish in the fifteenth century to the present. It focuses on the exercise of power within and outside households and its impact on private and public spaces (both lay and religious). By introducing students to the analytical concepts of race, gender, masculinities and queer theory, this course discusses the creation and perpetuation of a hierarchical social order that affected European, Indigenous and Afro-Latin American men and women.