This course explores the impact of social and cultural differences among women on gender relations, women’s sexualities and identities in Latin America.

Each semester we focus on different materials that help illuminate the course topic.

This course is cross-listed with the Anthropology Department. The students conduct original research that enables them to experience and develop skills in ethnographic research methods characteristic of cultural anthropological research.

Each student wrote a profile of a Latin American woman of historical significance. For their final projects, each student selected a contemporary woman of Latin American descent who has made significant contributions to the arts, academia, medicine, public health, and more. Each student reached out to the woman they profiled to conduct an interview. They developed interview questions based on background research. Then, they conducted a virtual interview (in Spanish or English), transcribed their interviews, analyzed them, and used them as data for writing a profile. Check out the biographies the students wrote.