This document summarizes and discusses key points from an article about heterosexuality in U.S. Latina communities. It examines how coming of age traditions, historical concepts of sexuality like machismo and marianismo, and heteronormativity have promoted white and heterosexual supremacy. It also analyzes how double moral standards are reflected in traditions like quinceañeras and the use of corrective rape. The author argues that heterosexuality is simultaneously celebrated, stimulated, and suppressed in Latina communities.
Gender roles in mass media – Gender stereotypes in mass media -gender identity roles - Positive notions of body and self - Gender in media: magazines, TV shows, cartoons, movies and advertisements - Gender equality and language use.
Gender roles in mass media – Gender stereotypes in mass media -gender identity roles - Positive notions of body and self - Gender in media: magazines, TV shows, cartoons, movies and advertisements - Gender equality and language use.
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Gender and sexuality
What’s the difference?
· Sex refers to a person’s biological status and is typically categorized as male, female, or intersex (i.e., atypical combinations of features that usually distinguish male from female). There are a number of indicators of biological sex, including sex chromosomes, gonads, internal reproductive organs, and external genitalia.
· Gender refers to the attitudes, feelings, and behaviors that a given culture associates with a person’s biological sex. Behavior that is compatible with cultural expectations is referred to as gender-normative; behaviors that are viewed as incompatible with these expectations constitute gender non-conformity.
· Sexual orientation refers to the sex of those to whom one is sexually and romantically attracted. Categories of sexual orientation typically have included attraction to members of one’s own sex (gay men or lesbians), attraction to members of the other sex (heterosexuals), and attraction to members of both sexes (bisexuals). While these categories continue to be widely used, research has suggested that sexual orientation does not always appear in such definable categories and instead occurs on a continuum (e.g., Kinsey, Pomeroy, Martin, & Gebhard, 1953; Klein, 1993; Klein, Sepekoff, & Wolff, 1985; Shiveley & DeCecco, 1977) In addition, some research indicates that sexual orientation is fluid for some people; this may be especially true for women (e.g., Diamond, 2007; Golden, 1987; Peplau & Garnets, 2000).
· Excerpt from: The Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients, adopted by the APA Council of Representatives, February 18-20, 2011. The Guidelines are available on the APA website at http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/guidelines.aspx
Sexual Identity
· Sexual identity is: a complex set of personal qualities, self perceptions, attitudes, values, and preferences that guide one’s sexual behavior
· HOW IT IS DEVELOPED
· Physiological Influences
· Biological Development
· Hormones produced in the body
· Puberty through sexual development
· Psychological Influences
· Messages we receive about sex and sexuality
· What is appropriate, what is not
· What is normal, what is abnormal
· Communication around sexuality
· Open/Closed
Sexual Identity Development
· Psychological Influences
· What do we think about sex and sexuxality?
· Family
· Peers
· School
· Religion
· Media
· Pop Culture
· Gender Differences
· Do we give different messages about sexual identity based on gender?
· Societal norms
· Peers
· Media messages
Sexual Socialization
· Sexual Education in school
· Think about your experience
· Were you adequately educated about your body, sex, sexuality
· Were you able to have questions answered?
· Was it ok to talk about development with your friends?
· Messages and norms regarding what is appropriate
· Differences among gender socialization
· We’ve all seen the “Real men do ABC” or “Real women are XYZ”
· What impact does this have ...
Human sexuality is the way people experience & express themselves sexuality. This involves biological, erotic, physical, emotional, social, or spiritual feelings and behaviors. Physical and emotional aspects of sexuality include bonds between individuals that are expressed through profound feelings or physical manifestations of love, trust, and care. Social aspects deal with the effects of human society on one's sexuality, while spirituality concerns an individual's spiritual connection with others. Sexuality also affects and is affected by cultural, political, legal, philosophical, moral, ethical, and religious aspects of life
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Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. It includes women's studies (concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics), men's studies and queer studies.
Its rise to prominence, especially in Western universities after 1990, has been noted as a success of deconstructionism. Sometimes, gender studies is offered together with study of sexuality.
1. HETEROSEXUALITY
EXPOSED
Written, Directed, and Presented by
Sean Brinchamn and Rhiann Peterson
2. MAIN POINTS OF ARTICLE
• Reflection on the dominant paradigms that show U.S. Latinas
and their experiences of heterosexual love and sex
• Analysis of how coming of age ceremonies further portray the
heterosexual lifestyle
• Examination of how race relations and heterosexuality have
promoted white racial and heterosexual supremacy in U.S.
Latina/o communities
3. HISTORICAL SEXUALITY
• What does “historical heterosexuality” mean to you?
• How does it shape the way we see ourselves today?
• Machismo vs. Marinismos
• Macho, virgin, whore (what are the differences?)
• The term marianismo is still used today when
describing the disempowerment Latina women
feel within their families and relationships.
4. STIGMATIZED ISSUES REGARDING
HETEROSEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS
• Promoting theoretical fiction
• Empirical inaccuracy's they promote
• Damaging images that they portray
• Racism and classism that they produce
5. SECOND TYPE OF PARADIGM
(INSPIRED BY SOCIAL SCIENCES)
• Women and men’s experiences in heterosexual relationships
• Coming of age
• Desire and emotional dimensions for experiencing pleasure in heterosexual
relationships
• Differences between mother and daughters when it comes to premarital sex
and virginity
• Socioeconomic status
• Psychophysical development
• Everyday interactions between men and women
• Migration and sexual violence against women
• Catholic religion
• Sex and heterosexuality in context of migration
• Incorporation and settlement process
7. HOW THE AUTHOR SEES IT
• Norms and institution
• Constraints that control you emotions and sexual desires
• Beliefs, attitudes and behaviors
• Everyday interactions with people where heterosexuality is the
idealized and expected form of sexuality
8. DOUBLE MORALITY
• What is the message of double morality?
• In what ways do we see heterosexuality celebrated, stimulated,
and suppressed simultaneously?
9. RIGHTS OF PASSAGE
• Quinceañera- How are the girls affected by the double
morality?
• What about the Brothel tradition for adolescent males?
• What about a lesbian quinceañera? What would that look like?
10. TRADITIONS FOR CORRECTING
HOMOSEXUAL/LESBIAN BEHAVIOR
• Taking boys to brothel to have sex with women may cause fear,
anger, pain, confusion, and fear
• The story of a girls parents of paid a police officer to have sex
with her to “make her a women” when he just ended up raping
her
• What kind of emotional reaction did you experience to these
anecdotes?
• How do you feel about using traditions to correct homosexual
behavior?
11. RACIALIZED HETEROSEXUALITY
• What are the gender differences for marrying up?
• Do the same aspects go into marrying down?
• What do men need in order to marry up?
12. SER VS. ESTAR
• How was the language changed in order to have new
meanings?
• Why did this make it seem as though
homosexuality/lesbianism was more temporary?
13. BIBLIOGRAPHY
Gonzalez Lopez, Gloria. "Heterosexuality Exposed: Some Feminist
Sociological Reflections on Heterosexual Sex and Romance in U.S. Latina/o
Communities." 2010. Latina/o Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and
Policies. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2010. 103-16. Print.