Download or read book Latina o Sexualities written by Marysol Asencio and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Hispanic Sexual Behavior written by Hortensia Amaro and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sexual Behavior of Latino Adolescents written by Azadeh Khatibi and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gender Differences in Sexual Behaviors of Latino Adolescents written by Kristen Skenfield Marchi and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Social Psychological Correlates of Teenage Hispanic Females Responsible Sexual Behavior written by Juli Bernat Furgeson and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sexual Activity of Latino Adolescents written by Julia Stephana Cohen and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Study of Adolescent Risky Sexual Behaviors Among Hispanics written by Karla Artavia and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between sexual risk behaviors and factors such as gender, grade level, alcohol use, and HIV knowledge and testing among Hispanic high school students. A quantitative study in which secondary data were utilized from the 2009 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The information collected was obtained for youth in Grades 9-12 who identified themselves as Hispanic-Latino. The sample size was approximately 3,555 Hispanic adolescents. The findings revealed a gender difference in that males tended to engage in more sexual risk behaviors than females. Alcohol use was an indicator for increased sexual risk behaviors. HIV knowledge did not reduce sexual risk behaviors or promote an increase in HIV testing. The findings may help in developing programs to address sexual risk behaviors and to promote a reduction in those behaviors.

Download or read book Sex and Sexuality in Latin America written by Daniel Balderston and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1997-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized around three central themes - control and repression; the politics and culture of resistance; and sexual transgression as affirmation of marginalized identity - this intriguing collection will challenge and inform conceptions of Latin American sexuality.

Download or read book Hispanics and the Future of America written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-02-23 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hispanics and the Future of America presents details of the complex story of a population that varies in many dimensions, including national origin, immigration status, and generation. The papers in this volume draw on a wide variety of data sources to describe the contours of this population, from the perspectives of history, demography, geography, education, family, employment, economic well-being, health, and political engagement. They provide a rich source of information for researchers, policy makers, and others who want to better understand the fast-growing and diverse population that we call "Hispanic." The current period is a critical one for getting a better understanding of how Hispanics are being shaped by the U.S. experience. This will, in turn, affect the United States and the contours of the Hispanic future remain uncertain. The uncertainties include such issues as whether Hispanics, especially immigrants, improve their educational attainment and fluency in English and thereby improve their economic position; whether growing numbers of foreign-born Hispanics become citizens and achieve empowerment at the ballot box and through elected office; whether impending health problems are successfully averted; and whether Hispanics' geographic dispersal accelerates their spatial and social integration. The papers in this volume provide invaluable information to explore these issues.

Download or read book Sexual Futures Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings written by Juana María Rodríguez and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize presented by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association Finalist for the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings proposes a theory of sexual politics that works in the interstices between radical queer desires and the urgency of transforming public policy, between utopian longings and everyday failures. Considering the ways in which bodily movement is assigned cultural meaning, Juana María Rodríguez takes the stereotypes of the hyperbolically gestural queer Latina femme body as a starting point from which to discuss how gestures and forms of embodiment inform sexual pleasures and practices in the social realm. Centered on the sexuality of racialized queer female subjects, the book’s varied archive—which includes burlesque border crossings, daddy play, pornography, sodomy laws, and sovereignty claims—seeks to bring to the fore alternative sexual practices and machinations that exist outside the sightlines of mainstream cosmopolitan gay male culture. Situating articulations of sexual subjectivity between the interpretive poles of law and performance, Rodríguez argues that forms of agency continually mediate among these various structures of legibility—the rigid confines of the law and the imaginative possibilities of the performative. She reads the strategies of Puerto Rican activists working toward self-determination alongside sexual performances on stage, in commercial pornography, in multi-media installations, on the dance floor, and in the bedroom. Rodríguez examines not only how projections of racialized sex erupt onto various discursive mediums but also how the confluence of racial and gendered anxieties seeps into the gestures and utterances of sexual acts, kinship structures, and activist practices. Ultimately, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings reveals —in lyrical style and explicit detail—how sex has been deployed in contemporary queer communities in order to radically reconceptualize sexual politics.

Download or read book Parental Factors in Adolescence as Predictors of Sexual Behavior Among Hispanic Latino Emerging Adults written by Olubukola Toluwase Olajide and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Risky sexual behavior is associated with many adverse health outcomes including sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancies. These outcomes are elevated among adolescents and emerging adults and cost the nation billions of dollars annually. Studies show that parental influences (socioeconomic status, monitoring, and communication) play a significant role in reducing risky sexual behaviors among teenagers. However, it is not generally known whether this influence continues into early adulthood, neither has it been studied specifically among the Hispanic/Latino population. Therefore, this study utilized secondary data obtained from Project RED (Reteniendo y Entendiento Diversidad para Salud) and explored whether or not parental factors, cultural identity and gender of 10th graders in Southern California will predict the use of condoms as emerging adults, an important health protective sexual behavior. Logistic regression was used to assess these predictive associations. The sample was composed of 57.6% females and 42.4% males. At Time 1, the respondents' mean age was 15.86 years and 20.93 years at Time 2. Findings of the study indicated that, for the sample, parental communication (OR = 1.116, p = .025) was the only parental factor predictive of condom use in emerging adulthood. However, these predictors lost significance in the aggregate logistic model. The implications of the findings for public health and health education are discussed. Several limitations that reduce the generalizability of the results of this study are also outlined.

Download or read book Sexual Behavior and Selected Health Measures written by William D. Mosher and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hispanic Cultural Influences on the Antecedents for Sexual Behavior in the Context of Pender s Model of Health Promotion in Nursing Practice written by Nancy M. George and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Relationships Among Acculturation Sex Knowledge and Risky Sex Behavior in Latina Undergraduates of Mexican Descent in South Texas written by Claudia Rodriguez Kypuros and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acculturation and sex knowledge have been shown to be predictors of sex behavior among the general population of Latinos in the United States. Latina college students are a diverse group acculturated at different levels, who are at high risk for sexually transmitted infection (STI) and/or unintended pregnancy because of high participation in risky sex behavior, low contraception use, and limited access to accurate sex information. An STI and/or unintended pregnancy can interrupt an academic trajectory and potentially lead to premature departure from college. This is particularly problematic for Latina college students because of existing low college completion rates for this population. To help prevent an academic disruption because of risky sex behavior, this study explored how acculturation and sex knowledge predicted sex behavior for a specific Latina population. The Short Acculturation Scale (SASH) measured acculturation level, the Sexual Knowledge and Attitude Test for Adolescents (SKAT-A) measured sex knowlege and attitudes about sex, and the Sexual Risk Survey (SRS) measured degree of risky sex behavior. A Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient was utilized to explore a relationship between the SASH and SRS and analyze a relationship between acculturation level and specific risky sex behavior: (i) Sexual Risk-Takng with Uncommitted Partners (casual sex), (ii) Risky Sex Acts (unprotected sex), (iii) Impulsive Sexual Behaviors, (iv) Intent to Engage in Risky Sex Behavior, and (v) Risky Anal Sex Acts (unprotected anal sex). A Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient and a Spearman's rho were used to explore a relationship between sex knowledge and risky sex behavior and evaluate the relationship between the following three variables: age, student classification, and religiosity and risky sex behavior. The findings suggested a relationship between sex knowledge and risky sex behavior. However, no significant relationship was found with acculturation; therefore, acculturation was not a predictor of sex behavior for this group. Additionally, strong correlations were found with age and student classification in relation to sex behavior. This information assists mental health professionals and other health care professionals to more accurately target sex behavior interventions for Latinas based on sex knowledge and demographic characteristics such as age and student classification.

Download or read book Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors of the Latino Gay Male written by José Jesse Cervantes-Gutierrez and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Parteras Promotoras Y Poetas written by M. Idali Torres and published by Baywood Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together a multidisciplinary, multicultural collection of case studies, this work focuses on sexual and reproductive health education problems and programs from across the Americas. It links the experience of US Latino populations with public health, culture, and community in Latin American countries.

Download or read book The Effect of Acculturation Upon the Sexual Behavior of Mexican American Adolescent Females written by Eve Picardy Fielder and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: