Topic: Sexualities and the City in North and South America

Catalog description

This course will explore the complex interaction between sexuality and urban spaces. Our main focus will be the various ways in which metropolitan institutions, structures, and cultures have determined normative rules of gender and sexuality that reflect the intersections of class, race, and sexual orientation. At the same time, we will explore contested spaces that house forbidden sexualities, nonconformist gender practices, and conceals desires. Emphasis will be placed on the shifting relations of power between genders at different moments and in countries of the continent,. That way, we will examine the circulation of gendered meanings, discourses and manifestations that are part of urban life in some important cities of the Americas.