Latina/o Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and PoliciesMarysol Asencio 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
Mapping Latinao Sexualities | 1 |
A History of Latinao Sexualities | 13 |
Histories of Latinao Sexualities | 38 |
Latinao Childhood Sexuality | 48 |
Latinao ParentAdolescent Communication about | 62 |
Sexual Health of Latinao Populations in the United States | 75 |
Latinao Sex Policy | 90 |
Some Feminist Sociological | 103 |
ReligionSpirituality U S Latinao Communities | 173 |
Latinao Sexualities | 188 |
Latinas Sex Work and Trafficking in the United States | 207 |
Latinao Transpopulations | 230 |
Reframing the Discourse | 243 |
Toward New Cartographies | 253 |
Notes | 287 |
Contributors | 355 |
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