Images of Latinas: Syllabus

Schedule of Class Discussions:

• Week 1: Who Are They? History and Diversity

• Week 2: Language and Women: Are We Prisoners of the Word?

• Week 3: Constituting a Subject: The Politics of Difference

• Week 4: Subjectivity: My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Sandra Cisneros

• Week 5: In the Workplace: Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender

• Week 6: The Sexuality of Latinas

• Week 7: Proposals and Presentations for Research Papers

• Week 8: A Politics of Place/ The Place of Politics

• Week 9: Barrio Women

• Week 10: Voices from the Borderlands

• Week 11:In this section we will read Under the Feet of Jesus by Helena Maria Viramontes

• Week 12:In this section we will read Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia

• Week 13:In this section we will read When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago

• Weeks 14 & 15: Research Papers Due. Presentations