Género y Sexualidad: Conceptos y Perspectivas Críticas

This comprehensive course provides an introduction to gender and sexuality as social orders that regulate people's lives, structure social relationships, and operate as powerful matrices of meaning. Since the 1990s, gender and sexuality have gained significant importance, with multilateral organizations promoting gender equity and eliminating discrimination. At the same time, social movements for women's rights, feminist causes, and LGBTIQ+ communities have become relevant actors in recognizing rights and driving social change at national, regional, and global levels. The course examines critical questions like: What are gender and sexuality? Are they attributes that define what and who each person and body is? If these are individual characteristics associated with intimacy and internal affairs, why do they provoke such heated debates in legislative spheres, presidential elections, media, and institutions like schools and universities? Students will learn to problematize the notion of sexual difference, recognize gender as a social order involved in structuring power relationships, become familiar with approaches that identify heterosexuality as a social institution, and identify how gender and sexuality intersect with other forms of oppression.