March 5

Theme: “Stories of Race, Gender and Class”

Reading & Discussion Session

Liu Institute, Boardroom, 16:00 – 18:00 hrs

Guest Commentator: Dr. Gastón Gordillo, Dept. of Anthropology

Readings:

Mary Weismantel (2001) Cholas and Pishtacos: Stories of Race and Sex in the Andes. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. –Introduction, Ch.2, Ch.4, and Ch.5–

[This book is available online through UBC Library. Call Number F2230.1 E84 W45 2001. Alternatively, portions of this book are available online through Google Books. Click here.]

Melissa Wright (2004) From Protests to Politics: Sex Work, Women’s Worth, and Ciudad Juárez Modernity. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94(2):369-386.

[The article is available through UBC Library. From within the UBC intranet, or logged into the MYVPN or RSVPN server, click here to go directly to the paper.]

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About

Welcome to the blog of the Liu Institute's Research Group on Gender and Sexuality in Latin America.

This research group brings together undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and community members interested in issues of gender, sexuality and feminism, with a particular geographical focus in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The group members seek to investigate and challenge essentialist gender ideologies, explore contemporary social movements organized around issues of gender and sexuality, consider customary and alternative sexualities, and interrogate notions about Latin America and/or the Caribbean as homogeneous geopolitical and sociocultural regions in critical ways.

The group hosts reading and discussion sessions, film screenings, and graduate student workshops, among other events.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia in launching and sponsoring the activities of the Research Group since 2010.