Gender, Power and Politics in Latin America

Course content

The study of the political trajectories of Latin America from a gender lense to analyse how gender has shaped political institutions, discourses, and processes; a focus on top-down and bottom -up processes of women's inclusion as citizens in the political systems of the major countries in the region from a historical perspective. Thematic analysis of the gendered dynamics of political regime changes up to the recent era; the intersections of gender with authoritarianism, processes of economic liberalization and democratization. Women's position in representative institutions, and their struggles to expand gender equality and social justice in the context of pervasive economic, racial and ethnic inequalities.