HST 134 GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN LATIN AMERICA

This first-year topics course will examine notions of gender and sexuality in Latin America from the pre-colonial era (before 1492) through modern times. We will pay particular attention to the differing ideologies of gender and sexuality found in the Americas before the Age of Discovery and arrival of the Europeans, and the subsequent ways in which Europeans imposed their notions of patriarchalism and paternalism onto the indigenous, African, and mestizo populations.