This course employs an interdisciplinary perspective to critically examine the various identities and spaces created by, and imposed on, women in Latin America and Latinas in the U.S. We explore connections and divergences within and between these two groups of women, but begin by examining how the legacies of conquest in Latin America and the U.S. have shaped women's experiences in the past. This background will also help us understand how women's experiences have differed given the specific contexts in which their lives unravel.