February 5

Theme: “Engendering Politics: Gender, Class and Power”

Film Screening & Discussion Session

Liu Institute, Caseroom, 16:00 – 19:00 hrs

Introduced by Dr. Rita de Grandis and Dr. Kim Beauchesne, Dept. of French, Hispanic and Italian Studies.

Film:

“Miss Mary” (Argentina, 1986. Dir. María Luisa Bemberg.)

A young British woman is hired as a governess by a wealthy Argentine family. Through her position, she slowly sees how the upper class of society is slowly crumbling, and how a fascist movement is preparing to install itself in power [synopsis taken from IMDb].

Online Reviews:

New York Times Review Click here.

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.