WOMGEN 1226 - Sex and Power in Modern Latin America and U.S. Latino Culture

Institution:

Harvard University

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Description:

Focuses on 20th-century narrative fiction, testimony, and film by or about women and non-heteronormative men from a variety of linguistic cultures (French, Spanish, Creole, Maya-Quiche, English, Portuguese), paying special attention the ties and tensions between feminism, queer theory, and post-colonialism. Other topics include gender and genre; sexuality and the state; social engagement and artistic autonomy; nationality, nationalism, and internationalism; class conflict and the global market; family formations and kinship; ritual and religion; homosexuality, heterosexuality, and transgenderism; authoritarianism and democracy

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.harvard.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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