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Public Lives, Private Secrets
Sex & Love in Mexican History
The history of love, marriage, and family; patriarchy and power; gender and sexuality; race, honor, and transgression from indigenous times to modern Mexico.
Dan Grippo, Ph.D., Latin American History
Fridays, 10:30am-Noon
January 9, 2026 – March 13, 2026
IFC Clubhouse
Course Outline
EARLY MEXICO
- Aztec and Maya Sexuality.
COLONIAL ERA
- Marriage, Honor, and Patriarchy
- Seduction, Illegitimacy, Vice and Transgression
- Conception and Birth, Midwife and Miscarriage
- The Esoteric and the Inquisition; Witchcraft, Possession, Love Spells.
MODERN MEXICO
- Sex, Love in Porfirian Mexico
- Revolution and the Modern State, Public Health, Eugenics
- The “Modern” Woman and The Meanings of "Macho”
- Migration and Changes to Family Life
- Contemporary Gender and Sexuality, Muxes and “Third Sex” Tradition
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