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Frontmatter -- Contents -- A Note On Terminology -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The fertility of women of mexican origin: A Social Constructionist Approach -- 2. The twin problems of overpopulation and immigration in 1970s California -- 3. "They breed like rabbits": The Forced Sterilization of Mexican-Origin Women -- 4. "More than a hint of extraordinary fertility. . . .": Social Science Perspectives on Mexican-Origin Women's Reproductive Behavior (1912–1980) -- 5. Controlling borders and babies: John Tanton, ZPG, and Racial Anxiety over Mexican-Origin Women's Fertility -- 6. The right to have children: Chicanas Organizing Against Sterilization Abuse -- 7. "Baby-makers and welfare takers": The (Not-So) New Politics of Mexican-Origin Women's Reproduction -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Index

"Mexican American and Puerto Rican American women have long taken up the challenge to improve the lives of Chicagoans in the city's Latino/a/x communities. Rita D. Hernández, Leticia Villarreal Sosa, and Elena Gutiérrez present testimonies by Latina leaders who blazed new trails from the 1960s through today. Taking a do-it-all attitude, these women advanced agendas, built institutions, forged alliances, and created essential resources that Latino/a/x communities lacked. Time and again, they found themselves the first Latina to hold their post or part of the first Latino/a/x institution of its kind. Just as often, early grassroots efforts to address issues affecting themselves, their families, and their neighborhoods grew into larger endeavors. Their experiences ranged from public schools to healthcare to politics, and each woman's story shows how her work changed countless lives and still reverberates across the entire city. An eyewitness view of an unknown history, Chicago Latina Trailblazers reveals the vision and passion that fueled a group of women in the vanguard of reform"--

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