Speaking Up/Out: Women Writers and Feminist Social Movements in Contemporary Latin America

3 Credits

This seminar will explore how feminist subversion of naturalized power relationships has become a social force that is reshaping Latin American culture in the last several decades. Also, we will study how contemporary cultural artifacts contest value systems while rejecting entrenched hierarchies and norms. By reading contemporary women writers and by working on contemporary feminist social movements, this course will explore what the anthropologist Rita Segato has defined as "the war against women." Taught in Spanish.