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Latina/o sexualities : probing powers, passions, practices, and policies / edited by Marysol Asencio.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hispanic American women--Sexual behavior.
- Hispanic American women.
- Hispanics--Sexual behavior.
- Hispanics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (391 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction: Mapping Latina/o Sexualities Research and Scholarship
- 1. A History of Latina/o Sexualities
- 2. Making Sex Matter: Histories of Latina/o Sexualities, 1898 to 1965
- 3. Latina/o Childhood Sexuality
- 4. Latina/o Parent-Adolescent Communication about Sexuality: An Interdisciplinary Literature Review
- 5. Sexual Health of Latina/o Populations in the United States
- 6. Latina/o Sex Policy
- 7. Heterosexuality Exposed: Some Feminist Sociological Reflections on Heterosexual Sex and Romance in U.S. Latina/o Communities
- 8. Representations of Latina/o Sexuality in Popular Culture
- 9. Cultural Production of Knowledge on Latina/o Sexualities
- 10. Where There’s Querer: Knowledge Production and the Praxis of HIV Prevention
- 11. Religion/Spirituality, U.S. Latina/o Communities, and Sexuality Scholarship: A Thread of Current Works
- 12. Latina/o Sexualities in Motion: Latina/o Sexualities Research Agenda Project
- 13. Latinas, Sex Work, and Trafficking in the United States
- 14. Latina Lesbianas, BiMujeres, and Trans Identities: Charting Courses in the Social Sciences
- 15. Latina/o Transpopulations
- 16. Boundaries and Bisexuality: Reframing the Discourse on Latina/o Bisexualities
- 17. Revisiting Activos and Pasivos: Toward New Cartographies of Latino/Latin American Male Same-Sex Desire
- 18. Retiring Behavioral Risk, Disease, and Deficit Models: Sexual Health Frameworks for Latino Gay Men and Other Men Who Enjoy Sex with Men
- Epilogue: Rethinking the Maps Where “Latina/o” and “Sexuality” Meet
- NOTES
- CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-49234-1
- 9786613587572
- 0-8135-4822-5
- 9780831548227
- OCLC:
- 647880016
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