HIS 5102 WOMEN & GENDER IN LATIN AMER HISTORY
This seminar explores how women shaped political, economic and social life in Latin America beginning with independence. Despite popular notions that women were either virtuous homemakers or immoral betrayers, they have challenged this duality throughout the history of Latin America. In order to understand how women negotiated and contested these constructions, this course places emphasis on gender relations and how categories of identity based on race, ethnicity and class informed social struggle. This course therefore requires the interrogation of specific themes such as sexuality, honor, labor, revolution, citizenship, nation building, law and social activism in order to better understand how women not only participated in social change, but also how they understood themselves as actors within a historical context.