History of Gender in Chile

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course examines the history of gender in Chile from colonial times to the present. In doing so from a gender analysis perspective, the course contemplates how those ideas about the roles of men and women in society were historically constructed and influenced other social relationships. Following Joan Scott's model, we will investigate "how gender constructs politics and politics builds gender". Therefore, we will focus on how gender has shaped historical processes such as the formation of the State and the construction of citizenship, as well as investigating the links between gender and sexuality, race, ethnicity and class. To guide and enrich our analysis, we will read theoretical texts along with historiographical works. In this way, the main objective of the course is that students can articulate how a gender analysis offers us different perspectives than the prevailing historical narratives and the traditional chronologies.