Jun 04, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book

SPA 253 - Queer Iberia: Sexualities in Early Modern Spain

3 Credits
Offered periodically or as needed
This course explores the experiences of people who identified as or were accused of being homosexual, whose lived gender differed from that assigned at birth, cases of women who chose to pass as men in order to obtain certain benefits or enjoy particular rights, and men who acted on the stage as women both to entertain others while also living their authentic self. Early modern notions of gender, heteronormativity, and societal expectations will be discussed.

Core Curriculum Attribute(s): Diversity, Power, and Resistance Global Perspectives Language, Arts, and Humanities    
Course Applies to: Gender and Sexuality Studies B.A. Gender and Sexuality Studies Minor   
Note: begins Spring 2025. Course is taught in English.