Erotic Journeys Mexican Immigrants and Their Sex Lives

Name: Erotic Journeys Mexican Immigrants and Their Sex Lives
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ISBN: 9780520231399

ISBN-10: 0520231392

ISBN-13: 9780520231399

Edition: 2005

Authors: Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez

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Erotic Journeys is a fascinating, revealing, and respectful examination of the romantic relationships and sex lives of the fastest-growing minority group in the nation. In a series of in-depth interviews, Gloria Gonzaacute;lez-Loacute;pez investigates the ways in which sixty heterosexual Mexican women and men living in Los Angeles reinvent their sex lives as part of their immigration and settlement experiences. Defying a broad spectrum of preconceived notions, these immigrants confirm in their vivid narratives that sexuality--far from being culturally determined--is fluid and complex. Gonzaacute;lez-Loacute;pez explains that these Mexicans enter the United States with particular sexual…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/25/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 331
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Twice Forgotten: The Sex Lives of Heterosexual Mexicans in the United States



Beyond the Hymen: Women, Virginity, and Sex



Pleasurable Dangers, Dangerous Pleasures: Men and Their First Sexual Experience



Sex Is a Family Affair: Nurturing and Regulating Sexuality



Sex and the Immigrant Communities: Risky Opportunities, Opportune Risks



Sexual Discourses and Cultures in the Barrio: Networking



Sexual Bargains: Work, Money, and Power



Gendered Tapestries: Sexuality Threads of Migrant Sexualities



Study Participants



Methodological Considerations


Notes


References


Index