Readings:
Jeffrey Weeks, “The Social Construction of Sexuality” and Rictor Norton, “Essentialism and Queer History,”in Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality: Document and Essays, Kathy Lee Peiss, ed. (Houghton Mifflin, 2002), 2-24.
Pete Sigal, “Latin America and the Challenge of Globalizing the History of Sexuality,” American Historical Review 114:5 (2009): 1340-1353.
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Richard Trexler, “Gender Subordination and Political Hierarchy in Pre-Hispanic America,” in Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America, Pete Sigal, ed., (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2003), 70-101.
Gregory Smithers, “Part 1 Judgements,” in Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal, and Sovereignty in Native America (Beacon Press, 2022), xvii-xxxiii and 3-63.
Readings:
Rebecca Overmyer-Velázquez, “Christian Morality Revealed in New Spain: the Inimical Nahua Woman in Book Ten of the Florentine Codex,” Journal of Women’s History, 10:2 (1998); 9-38.
John Chuchiak IV, “The Sins of the Father: Franciscan Friars, Parish Priests, and the Sexual Conquest of the Yucatec Maya, 1545-1808,” Ethnohistory 54:1 (2007): 69-127.
Readings:
Murriel Nazzari, “An Urgent Need to Conceal: The System of Honor and Shame in Colonial Brazil,” in The Faces of Honor: Sex, Shame, and Violence in Colonial Latin America, Lyman L. Johnson and Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, eds., (U of New Mexico Press, 1998): 103-26.
Steven Stern, “An Invitation to Readers” and “Women, Men, and Authority: The Contested Boundaries of Gender Right and Obligation,” in The Secret History of Gender: Women, Men, & Power in Late Colonial Mexico (U of North Carolina Press, 1995): 3-10, & 70-111.
Readings:
Ruth Behar, “Sexual Witchcraft, Colonialism, and Women’s Powers: Views from the Mexican Inquisition,” in Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America, Asunción Lavrin, ed. (U of Nebraska Press, 1989): 178-208.
Zeb Tortorici, “Masturbation, Salvation, and Desire: Connecting Sexuality and Religiousity in Colonial Mexico,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 16:3 (2007): 355-72.
Martha Few, “‘That Monster of Nature’:Gender, Sexuality, and the Medicalization of a ‘Hermaphrodite’ in Late Colonial Guatemala,” Ethnohistory 54:1 (2007): 159-176.
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In-Class Workday on Project 1
Rebecca Earle, “Race and the Anxious Republic: Revolutionary Columbia, 1810-1830,” Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux, eds. (,2020): 127-146.
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Madame Satã (Brazil) (2002)
Extra Readings for final reflection paper and as additional sources for the Unit Project. If you plan to write your final reflection paper on the novel, you can use one of these readings instead.
You are not responsible for reaing Senhora, but are welcome to if you like. The second half is pretty awesome for our class
Unit 3: Revolutionary and Postrevolutionary Sexualities?
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Primary Questions - We have the following three assignments left for the semester - Unit III Project, Where are we now? Presentations, and Final Research Project OR Community Engagement Projects (CEP). Do we want to alter that in any way (And no, the answer cannot be zero assignments). How do we make the most of the learning opportunities that we have left together?
Readings
Readings:
Elizabeth O’Brien, “The Many Meanings of Aborto: Pregnancy Termination and the Instability of a Medical Category Over Time,” Women’s History Review 30:6 (2021): 952-70.
Lois Wessel, “Reproductive Rights in Nicarauga” Feminist Studies 17:3 (1991): 536-549.
Gabriela Soto Lavega, ” ‘Let’s Become Fewer: Soap Operas, the Pill, and Population Campains, 1976-1986,” Sexuality Research and Social Policy Journal 4:3 (2007): 19-33
Jennifer Nelson, “Feminism, Human Rights, and Abortion Debates in Mexico,” Journal of Women’s History 34:2 (2022): 119-40.
Natalia Milanesio, “Sex and Democracy: The Meanings of Destape in Postdictatorial Argentina,” Hispanic American Historical Review 99:1 (2019):91-122.
Santiago Insausti and Pablo Ben, “Race and Politics in Peruvian and Argentine Porn Under the Transition to Democracy, 1975-1985” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 32:4 (2023): 629-655.
Assignment: Project #3 Due
Final Project Due: Monday May 11 @ 4pm