Sections offered SPRING 2022:
#34967 |
SONIA VELAZQUEZ |
MW 4:45 PM–6:00 PM |
HU 108 |
CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd A&H credit; COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
Class meets In Person. For more information visit https://covid.iu.edu/learning-modes/index.html
The image of a nun breaking into a high security nuclear arms plant to protest the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction—and its opposite, the image of a nun herself holding a rifle—are both disturbing. The purpose of this class is to make sense of our fascination and unease regarding these celibate women who under the guise of obedience also proclaim their right to resist. We shall consider historical cases of nuns in times of war, other forms of nun-ly resistance, as well as explore the appeal of nuns with guns in popular culture. This class will study issues of gender, authority, and resistance in different textual and visual genres from the European Middle Ages and colonial seventeenth-century Mexico to contemporary nuns in the United States and Africa.