(PALAS 380) Gender in Latin America                                   

Información

Semesters: First and Second
Hours of Instruction per Week: 4
Total Weeks: 15
Total Hours of Instruction: 60
Courses transferable to ECTS
Courses transferable to U.S. System
Recommendation: Advanced written and spoken English
Professor: Magister Patricia Anderson
E-mail: patricia.anderson@utoronto.ca

Course Description:
The course provides a brief introduction to the history of gender in Latin America from the time of Columbus to the 20th century. Focusing on the multiple manners in which womanhood has been constructed and experienced, the course explores the role that categories such as racial origins and social class play in mediating and defining experience. The course seeks to understand the complexity of the process of finding women’s own voices. Labor, family relations, sexuality, religion, education, and the evolution of political and civil rights will be discussed in order to demonstrate that women have actively shaped their own destinies. The course will use case studies, such as Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Manuela Saenz, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Eva Perón, Rigoberta Menchú, and Frida Kahlo and the weekly readings will be completed with primary source material, such as memoirs, accounts, films, photographs, and images.