17495		3:35-5:30	R				DIAZ
A portion of the above section reserved for majors

This course seeks to familiarize students with key historiographical
issues on gender in Latin America from colonial times to the
twentieth century. The aims of the course are twofold: 1) to analyze
some classic works as well as recent ones on women and gender; and 2)
to understand the story behind the story, that is, the academic,
political, and social context in which these texts were produced and
the theories and methods that influenced them. With this in mind, key
themes in the evolution of the field will be studied, including: the
legal, social, and economic condition of women; the family and how it
adapted to economic changes; the role of race, sexuality, and gender
in the reproduction of social hierarchies; the connections between
domestic gender relations and the state; the ways in which different
ideas on sexuality challenged church and state norms; the political
change during independence and how it affected women and men and
ideas about citizenship; the control of reproduction and sexuality in
a colonial context; the interactions between the sexes in an area of
high migration and limited state intervention; the discussion of what
it meant to be a man in a contemporary urban area; and the experience
of working women in the urban industry sector. As we study these
issues, we will be able to connect them with important theories that
have informed them such as Marxism, post-structuralism, subaltern
studies, and methodologies such as quantitative and textual analyses,
discourse analysis, memory, cultural history, and oral history. These
issues, theories, methodologies, and conceptual advances should
inspire students in the planning and conceptualization of their final
project either in the form of a research proposal, a course proposal,
or a final interpretative paper.