Latina/o Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies

Published by Rutgers University Press 2010

Latina/o Sexualities

Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies

Edited by: Marysol Asencio
With contributions by: Miguel Munoz-Laboy , Katie Acosta , Ramón Gutiérrez , Pablo Mitchell , Sonya Arreola , Laura Romo , Erum Nadeem , Claudia Kouyoumdjian , Sandra Arévalo , Mariana Gerena , Hortensia Amaro , Elena R. Gutiérrez , Gloria González-López , Deborah Vargas , José Quiroga , Melanie Frank , George Ayala , Jaime Cortez , Patrick "Pato" Hebert , Salvador Vidal-Ortiz , Susana Peña , Amalia Cabezas , Dolores Ortiz , Sonia Valencia , Luz Calvo , Catriona Esquibel , Marcia Ochoa , Carmen Yon , Carlos Decena , Héctor Carrillo and Tomâs Almaguer

https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813548227

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About this book

Latina/os are currently the largest minority population in the United States. They are also one of the fastest growing. Yet, we have very limited research and understanding of their sexualities. Instead, stereotypical images flourish even though scholars have challenged the validity and narrowness of these images and the lack of attention to the larger social context. Gathering the latest empirical work in the social and behavioral sciences, this reader offers us a critical lens through which to understand these images and the social context framing Latina/os and their sexualities.

Situated at the juncture of Latina/o studies and sexualities studies, Latina/o Sexualities provides a single resource that addresses the current state of knowledge from a multidisciplinary perspective. Contributors synthesize and critique the literature and carve a separate space where issues of Latina/o sexualities can be explored given the limitations of prevalent research models. This work compels the current wave in sexuality studies to be more inclusive of ethnic minorities and sets an agenda that policy makers and researchers will find invaluable.

Author / Editor information

Marysol Asencio is an associate professor of Puerto Rican and Latinostudies and human development and family studies at the University of Connecticut. She is author of Sex and Sexuality among New York's Puerto Rican Youth.

Reviews

"Latina/o Sexualities is a brilliant collection that provides groundbreaking analyses of the myriad connections between sexuality and race."

— Maxine Baca Zinn, Michigan State University

"A pathbreaking contribution and the definite resource for interdisciplinary scholars in the growing field of Latino sexualities. A highly sophisticated intervention that fills the existing void of empirical research in this area, while drawing from and critically engaging with the social and behavioral science literature. This volume will forever challenge us to rethink the categories, methods and approaches scholars use in this rapidly developing field of study."

— Arlene Dávila, author of Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race

"Two groundbreaking, indispensable guides for serious scholars of sexualities who wish to understand both the heterogeneous sexualities of African Americans and Latinos as well as how greater attention to race, ethnicity, class and culture provides important new directions for the field."

— Patricia Hill Collins, author of Black Sexual Politics

"Filled with provocative arguments and illuminating insights, Latina/o Sexualities marks a new and exciting epoch in the study of human sexuality and its interactions with race and class; a must-read for scholars and students of ethnic studies and human sexuality."

— Rafael Díaz, Cesar E. Chavez Institute, San Francisco State University

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Mapping Latina/o Sexualities Research and Scholarship Marysol Asencio and Katie Acosta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. A History of Latina/o Sexualities Ramón A. Gutiérrez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. Making Sex Matter: Histories of Latina/o Sexualities, 1898 to 1965 Pablo Mitchell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
3. Latina/o Childhood Sexuality Sonya Grant Arreola Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
4. Latina/o Parent-Adolescent Communication about Sexuality: An Interdisciplinary Literature Review Laura F. Romo, Erum Nadeem and Claudia Kouyoumdj Ian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
5. Sexual Health of Latina/o Populations in the United States Sandra Arévalo and Hortensia Amaro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
6. Latina/o Sex Policy Elena R. Gutiérrez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
7. Heterosexuality Exposed: Some Feminist Sociological Reflections on Heterosexual Sex and Romance in U.S. Latina/o Communities Gloria González-López Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
8. Representations of Latina/o Sexuality in Popular Culture Deborah R. Vargas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
9. Cultural Production of Knowledge on Latina/o Sexualities José Quiroga and Melanie López Frank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
10. Where There’s Querer: Knowledge Production and the Praxis of HIV Prevention George Ayala, Jaime Cortez and Patrick “Pato” Hebert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
11. Religion/Spirituality, U.S. Latina/o Communities, and Sexuality Scholarship: A Thread of Current Works Salvador Vidal-Ortiz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
12. Latina/o Sexualities in Motion: Latina/o Sexualities Research Agenda Project Susana Peña Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
13. Latinas, Sex Work, and Trafficking in the United States Amalia L. Cabezas, Dolores Ortiz and Sonia Valencia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
14. Latina Lesbianas, BiMujeres, and Trans Identities: Charting Courses in the Social Sciences Luz Calvo and Catrióna Rueda Esquibel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
15. Latina/o Transpopulations Marcia Ochoa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
16. Boundaries and Bisexuality: Reframing the Discourse on Latina/o Bisexualities Miguel Muñoz-Laboy and Carmen Yon Leau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
17. Revisiting Activos and Pasivos: Toward New Cartographies of Latino/Latin American Male Same-Sex Desire Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Carlos Decena, Héctor Carrillo and Tomás Almaguer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
18. Retiring Behavioral Risk, Disease, and Deficit Models: Sexual Health Frameworks for Latino Gay Men and Other Men Who Enjoy Sex with Men George Ayala Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274
Epilogue: Rethinking the Maps Where “Latina/o” and “Sexuality” Meet Carlos Decena Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363

Language: English
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 390
Illustrations
- Other: 16 illustrations. 16 illustrations and tables

eBook

Published: October 26, 2009
ISBN: 9780813548227