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December 02, 2005
Women & Work in Mexico Reading Group
This reading group aims to investigate the ways in which feminism in general, but especially in Mexico has left out a large sector of the female population, namely working-class women, and how such exclusion points to the trivialization of issues affecting their lives. In our monthly meetings, we will discuss the significance of the maid and/or nanny, the maquiladora worker, and other working-class women figures in Mexican society as presented in literary works as well as in studies in Politics, History, Education, and Anthropology. We will examine the ways in which working-class women are oppressed by the upper-class feminists who are otherwise very progressive. To facilitate discussions, we will invite UIUC faculty whose work deal with issues of gender and/or class. Readings will be both in English and Spanish.
Sponsored by Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities.
Monday: 12/05/2005 between 6:00 PM - 8:00pm
Located in 4080 A - Foreign Languages Building (FLB)
There is no cost and no great expectations from those who attend, other than a good time to get together and have great discussion.
Please contact Brenci Patino (patino@uiuc.edu) for more details.
Posted by undergrad at December 2, 2005 05:46 PM
