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450L GENDER IN LATIN AMERICA Professor Alejandro Lugo Office 385 Davenport
Hall; PH: 333-0823 In this advanced seminar we will critically
analyze a selected body of literature that examines the cultural politics of
gender inequalities in Latin America. Our
major purpose is to decipher the socio-political process through which gender,
sexuality, class, and ethnic/cultural dynamics are interconnected and
constructed in the Latin American context.
We will explore the complicated relationships between historically
specific ideologies and socioeconomic systems of production and domination, and
the respective privileged or unprivileged positions of women and men (as
colonial subjects and/or citizens) under the colonialist, socialist, and
capitalist states of Latin America. We
will examine these issues through theoretical concepts provided by Latin
Americanists active in such fields as cultural anthropology, history, critical
sociology, and other relevant disciplines, with reference to specific
ethnographic and historical studies. |