Chicana/o Genders and Sexualities

Catalog description

This survey course introduces students to Chicanx genders and sexual identities and representations as socially and culturally constructed in transnational Latinx communities and contexts. Through a lens of Chicana feminist and queer theories, students will gain familiarity with gender- and sexuality-related stereotypes and cultural expectations, as well as the histories of individual and group resistance to these norms. Course materials will highlight the revolutionary challenges to limitations and contributions to social, political, and cultural change made by queer Chicanx individuals and groups, women, and men resisting confining constructions of masculinity. This course will be both reading and writing intensive.