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Spanish beginnings, 1500-1800 -- Independence and empire, 1800-1835 -- Los Americanos, 1835-1848 -- Separate paths, 1848-1868 -- Wars of independence, 1868-1898 -- Birth of a Latina/o nation, 1898-1930 -- Great Depression and World War II, 1930-1945 -- Latina/os in mid-20th century America, 1945-1965 -- New worlds, new homes, 1965-1986 -- Latina/os in a new century, 1986-present

Introduction -- Colonial convictions -- Home fires and domesticity -- Uncommon women and prostitution -- Sexual borderlands -- Courtship and the courts -- From the outskirts of citizenship

Sex can be an oppressive force, a tool to shame, divide, and control a population. But it can also be a force for change, for the legal and physical challenge of inequity and injustice. In West of Sex, Pablo Mitchell uses court transcripts and criminal cases to provide the first coherent picture of Mexican-American sexuality at the turn of the twentieth century, and a truly revelatory look at sexual identity in the borderlands. As Mexicans faced a rising tide of racial intolerance in the American West, some found cracks in the legal system that enabled them to assert their rights as full citiz.

"This rich and eclectic collection of writings by scholars of Native American, African American, Chicana/o, and Latina/o history as well as border and legal studies represents the death knell to the archetype of the 'wild west.' Rather than the North American West being a lawless region, Beyond the Borders of the Law demonstrates the varied origins, uses, and interpretations of the law in there and the ways in which even the most disenfranchised peoples used the legal system to advocate for their rights and personal freedoms. Focusing on themes of race and gender, property and citizenship, and justice and reform, the volume delves deeply and widely into the law's influence in the borderlands across space, place, and time."-Miroslava Chávez-García, author of Migrant Longing: Letter Writing across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands "Western legal history is relatively new, and this creative collection of essays defines the field. Within the broad topic of legal borderlands, ten authors offer their engaging ideas about race and gender, property and citizenship, and justice and reform of the law in the American West. This book is most worthy of being described as 'cutting edge.'"-John R. Wunder, author of "Retained by The People": A History of American Indians and the Bill of Rights.

Embracing the crossroads that made the region distinctive this book reveals how American families have always been characterized by greater diversity than idealizations of the traditional family have allowed. The essays show how family life figured prominently in relations to larger struggles for conquest and control

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction, or, Why Do the History of Heterosexuality? -- Part I: Difference and Desire since the Seventeenth Century -- 1. Toward a Cultural Poetics of Desire in a World before Heterosexuality -- 2. The Strange Career of Interracial Heterosexuality -- 3. Age Disparity, Marriage, and the Gendering of Heterosexuality -- 4. "Deviant Heterosexuality" and Model- Minority Families: Asian American History and Racialized Heteronormativity -- Part II: Difference, Bodies, and Popular Culture -- 5. Defining Sexes, Desire, and Heterosexuality in Colonial British America -- 6. Spectacles of Restraint: Race, Excess, and Heterosexuality in Early American Print Culture -- 7. Heterosexual Inversions: Satire, Parody, and Comedy in the 1950s and 1960s -- Part III: Embracing and Contesting Legitimacy -- 8. Holding the Line: Mexicans and Heterosexuality in the Nineteenth- Century West -- 9. Suburban Swing: Heterosexual Marriage and Spouse Swapping in the 1950s and 1960s -- 10. Race, Sexual Citizenship, and the Constitution of Nonmarital Motherhood -- Part IV: Discourses of Desire -- 11. Restoring "Virginal Conditions" and Reinstating the "Normal": Episiotomy in 1920 -- 12. How Heterosexuality Became Religious: Judeo- Christian Morality and the Remaking of Sex in Twentieth- Century America -- 13. The Price of Shame: Second- Wave Feminism and the Lewinsky- Clinton Scandal -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Index

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

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. Situa