January 28

Theme: “Gender and Nationalism”

Reading & Discussion Session

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

Guest Commentator: Dr. Bill French, Dept. of History

Readings:

Diana Taylor (1997) Disappearing Acts: Spectacles of Gender and Nationalism in Argentina’s “Dirty War”. Durham: Duke University Press. — Preface, ch3, ch7–

[A hard copy of this book can be found at Koerner Library reserve collection (third floor). Call Number: PN2451.T28 1997. Alternatively, portions of this book are available online through Google Books. Click here.]

Lessie Jo Frazier (2007) Gendering the Space of Death: Memory, Democratization, and the Domestic. In: Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Latin America since Independence. Edited by W. E. French and K. E. Bliss, pp. 261-282. Plymouth, UK: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

[This book is available through UBC Library. Call Number: HQ1075.5 L29 G4617 2007. Alternatively, portions of this book are available online through Google Books. Click here.]

Optional Reading: Ximena Bunster (1988) Watch Out For The Little Nazi Man that All of Us Have Inside: The Mobilization and Demobilization of Women in Militarized Chile. Women’s Studies International Forum 11(5):485-491.

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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.