HSPST-357/457 Gender, Sexuality, and Democracy in Latin American Cultures
This course examines the increasing number of radical cultural expressions that show gender and sexual hierarchies intersect with other factors such as sex, race, ethnicity, class, religion, disability, weight, and physical appearance. Class discussions focus on enactments of embodied resistance to hegemonic norms as articulated through a history of negotiating multiple vectors of oppression. Through close readings of essays, interviews, short fiction, photography, documentaries, and feature films from the mid-2000s to today, we will consider the questions that arise when neoliberalism exacerbates struggles for social justice when a) imaging new masculinities, b) the neoliberal closet, c) migrant sexualities, d) digital cultural activism.
Proseminar (16)
Credits
1
Prerequisite
Two 200-level courses in HSPST above 200 or 201