SPAN 295 Gndrs Sxlty Lt Am/Crbbn
Genders and Sexualities in Latin America and the Caribbean introduces students to the study of gender and sexual expressions in Latin America and the Caribbean. The course will study various historical processes such as empire and colonialism, slavery and emancipation, revolutionary movements, and citizenship/sovereignty. Students will explore these themes through literature, film, music, and mass media produced by and for women, feminist audiencies, queer/cuir authors and activists, as well as those who engage in expressions of alternative masculinities. The course is grounded in the fact that gender and sexual politics were fundamental in the production of postcolonial and modern nation-states and continue to inform/fundamentally shape Latin American and Caribbean societies today.