△ HIST 460 - Women and Gender in Latin American History

(3 credits) Meets GEP Writing Intensive

This course will explore the history of women and gender relations in Latin American History from 1492 to the present. It puts gender at the center of our analysis of conquest, slavery, nation-building, modernization, revolutionary movements, and neoliberalism and views the history of the region through the lives of indigenous translators, colonial nuns, slave mothers, revolutionary poets, international feminists, rebellious grandmothers, and drug traffickers. Students will analyze films, poems, art, autobiographies, and oral histories, along with scholarly monographs written by historians and anthropologists. These texts will present a variety of methodologies that will encourage students to consider what it meant to be a woman or a man in different historical contexts and how gendered ideologies intersected with other structures, including race, nation, class, and sexuality. HIST 165 - Latin American History or instructor’s permission. Grade or P/NC. Offered alternate years (usually fall semester).

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