SPAN 423 | Iberian Feminisms in Transatlantic Dialogue

This course provides students with an overview of Iberian feminism from a transatlantic perspective (Spain-the Americas). The class starts with an examination of the origins of Iberian feminisms that pays special attention to transatlantic literary networks and spaces. In the process, students are introduced to key concepts around feminism and/or women’s writing: the struggle over women’s rights; women as a labor force and consumers; models of gender identity and nation building; sexual liberation, etc. The second part of the course is centered around the major global debates within contemporary feminisms (transfeminism, decolonial feminisms, ecofeminism or pinkwashing) and their articulation in the Iberian context. This course covers a variety of feminist artifacts and practices (short fiction, manifestos, performance, memoirs, poetry, strikes, etc.) with emphasis on how and why these texts often blur genre conventions.