SPAN 365 Gender and Sexuality in Spain
This course examines discourses of gender and sexuality and their intersections with race, politics, religion, and national identity in Spain from Francoism to the present. By reading a selection of literary works and watching representative films and TV shows through a feminist lens, we will explore cultural artefacts that subvert, perpetuate, and construct notions of gender and sexuality in 20th and 21st century Spanish society. Some of the topics to be discussed are: Women’s oppression and resistance during the Francoist dictatorship, the (de)construction of the Spanish macho, the post-Francoist experiences of LGBTQ+-identifying lives, gender violence, processes of exoticization and marginalization, and queer and feminist re-writing of Spanish history in the 21st century.