Latina/o Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies
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...
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Situated at the juncture of Latina/o studies and sexualities studies, the contributors to Latina/o Sexualities 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.
Preface viiAcknowledgments ixIntroduction: Mapping Latina/o Sexualities Research and Scholarship Marysol Asencio Katie Acosta 11 A History of Latina/o Sexualities Ramón A. Gutiérrez 132 Making Sex Matter: Histories of Latina/o Sexualities, 1898 to 1965 Pablo Mitchell 383 Latina/o Childhood Sexuality Sonya Grant Arreola 484 Latina/o Parent-Adolescent Communication about Sexuality: An Interdisciplinary Literature Review Laura F. Romo Erum Nadeem Claudia Kouyoumdjian 625 Sexual Health of Latina/o Populations in the United States Sandra Arévalo Hortensia Amaro 756 Latina/o Sex Policy Elena R. Gutiérrez 907 Heterosexuality Exposed: Some Feminist Sociological Reflections on Heterosexual Sex and Romance in U.S. Latina/o Communities Gloria González-López 1038 Representations of Latina/o Sexuality in Popular Culture Deborah R. Vargas 1179 Cultural Production of Knowledge on Latina/o Sexualities José Quiroga Melanie López Frank 13710 Where There's Querer: Knowledge Production and the Praxis of HIV Prevention George Ayala Jaime Cortez Patrick "Pato" Hebert 15011 Religion/Spirituality, U.S. Latina/o Communities, and Sexuality Scholarship: A Thread of Current Works Salvador Vidal-Ortiz 17312 Latina/o Sexualities in Motion: Latina/o Sexualities Research Agenda Project Susana Pe&nmacr;a 18813 Latinas, Sex Work, and Trafficking in the United States Amalia L. Cabezas Dolores Ortiz Sonia Valencia 20714 Latina Lesbianas, Bimujeres, and Trans Identities: Charting Courses in the Social Sciences Luz Calvo Catrióna Rueda Esquibel 21715 Latina/o Transpopulations MarciaOchoa 23016 Boundaries and Bisexuality: Reframing the Discourse on Latina/o Bisexualities Miguel Mu&nmacr;oz-Laboy Carmen Yon Leau 24317 Revisiting Activos and Pasivos: Toward New Cartographies of Latino/Latin American Male Same-Sex Desire Salvador Vidal-Ortiz Carlos Decena Héctor Carrillo Tomás Almaguer 25318 Retiring Behavioral Risk, Disease, and Deficit Models: Sexual Health Frameworks for Latino Gay Men and Other Men Who Enjoy Sex with Men George Ayala 274Epilogue: Rethinking the Maps Where "Latina/o" and "Sexuality" Meet Carlos Decena 279Notes 287Contributors 355Index 363
\ Michigan State University"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\ - Maxine Baca Zinn\ "Latina/o Sexualities is a brilliant collection that provides groundbreaking analyses of the myriad connections between sexuality and race."\ \ \ Cesar E. Chavez Institute, San Francisco State University\ - Rafael D�az\ "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."\ \ \ \ \ author of Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing of Race\ - Arlene D�vila\ "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."\ \ \ \ \ author of Black Sexual Politics\ - Patricia Hill Collins\ "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."\ \
