| dc.description.abstract | Course Description
The course will provide a brief introduction to thehistory of gender in
Latin America by focusing on the multiple manners in which womanhood
has been constructed and experienced from the Conquest up to the
twentieth century. Placing a special emphasis on how categories such as
race and social class have mediated and defined their experiences, the
course will explore some of the differences betweenwomen as well as
their attempts to bridge these differences. We willexamine a variety of
issues such as labour and family relations, sexuality, religion, education,
and the evolution of political and civil rights in order to demonstrate that
women have actively participated in and shaped their own historical
destinies. By using a variety of primary sources the course will seek to
explore and understand some of the challenges that women have faced
over time and the manners in which they have actively contributed to
shape Latin American history. | es_ES |
