Gloria González‐lópez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3661278 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gloria González‐lópez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gloria |
| FAMILY NAME | González‐lópez |
| SIGNATURE | LOPEZ G G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Queer family intimacies
This paper presents the rich and detailed sex life stories of two self-identified cisgender gay men. Both recalled in retrospect their romantic and sexual experiences with their respective close in age first cousins during their adolescence. Both men described their experiences as voluntary and a positive influence on their emotional and sexual development as self-identified gay men. The men were born and raised in contrasting contexts: the first…
Gratitude to Ken Plummer
The author weaves her favorite quotes from Ken Plummer’s celebrated book, Telling Sexual Stories with her own voice to offer a modest tribute and express her gratitude to him. In this exercise of creative writing, she celebrates his contributions to her intellectual and professional growth as a feminist ethnographer, a witness to endless sexual stories with populations of Mexican origin in both countries, the United States and Mexico. The author …
Beyond Pleasure and Danger
In the flesh
The author incorporates her creative writing to share her untold experience of what Carole J. Sheffield would identify as sexual terrorism. She then engages in a candid dialogue with co-editor Patricia Richards, demonstrating the power of conversation as a feminist method. Inspired by their feminist imagination, they explore ways to construct meaning and produce knowledge beyond conventional, mainstream frameworks in sociology. In this intellectu…
Women's Journey to Empowerment in the 21st Century
Latina/o Sexualities
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…
Sociology of sexualities, Latinas and Latinos
Doing Reflexivity
Family Secrets
"My breasts stopped growing when my grandfather touched them," confides 'Elisa', a young woman who recounts the traumatic incest and sexual abuse she experienced in childhood. In Family Secrets, Gloria González-López tells the life stories of 60 men and women in Mexico who, like Elisa, saw their lives irrevocably changed in the wake of childhood and adolescent incest. In Mexico, a patriarchal, religious society where women are expected to make th…
Incest revisited
This article offers a feminist sociological analysis of Otilia’s incestuous relationship with her father—a Catholic priest. This case study is one in a series of Mexican women’s narratives of incestuous relationships that reveal the sexual objectification of girls and women within the context of the family and its roots in a colonial history shaped by race, class, and gender inequalities. In this case study I also explore the complex origins of d…
Marie Keenan, Child Sexual Abuse and The Catholic Church
Thiefing Sugar
Bridging
The inspirational writings of cultural theorist and social justice activist Gloria Anzaldúa have empowered generations of women and men throughout the world. Charting the multiplicity of Anzaldúa's impact within and beyond academic disciplines, community trenches, and international borders, Bridging presents more than thirty reflections on her work and her life, examining vibrant facets in surprising new ways and inviting readers to engage with t…
Mindful Ethics
Ethnographic Lessons
This article is a series of reflections on the methodological challenges and ethnographic complexities I have encountered while conducting research on the sexualized acts, interactions, and relationships (both voluntary and involuntary) within the family context in Mexican society. I examine how this journey has had a transformative effect on me as a researcher and a sociologist. In particular, I discuss the research surprises, methodological les…
Nunca he dejado de tener terror
Nunca he dejado de tener terror: violencia sexual en las vidas de las mujeres mexicanas inmigrantes
Gender and Sexuality in Las Americas
Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture & Chicana/O Sexualities. Edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. 322. $60.00 cloth, $26.95 paper.) Hotel Ritz—Comparing Mexican And U.S. Street Prostitutes: Factors In HIV/AIDS Transmission. By David J. Bellis. (New York: The Haworth Press, 2003. Pp. 128. $24.95 cloth, $17.95 paper.) Cuerpo y Sexualidad. Edited by Francisco Vidal and Carla Donoso. (Santiago, Chile: FLACSO-Chile, Un…
Heterosexual fronteras
Erotic Journeys
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 González-López 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 notion…
Fathering latina sexualities
Mexican men have been traditionally misrepresented in or omitted from fatherhood scholarship, sexuality and reproductive health-related research, and immigration studies. Based on in-depth tape-recorded interviews with 20 immigrant men living in Los Angeles, this study examined Mexican fathers' views of virginity as they educate their daughters in the United States. Results indicate that fathers' perceptions of a daughter's virginity are shaped b…
Mindful Ethics
Fathering latina sexualities
Mexican men have been traditionally misrepresented in or omitted from fatherhood scholarship, sexuality and reproductive health-related research, and immigration studies. Based on in-depth tape-recorded interviews with 20 immigrant men living in Los Angeles, this study examined Mexican fathers' views of virginity as they educate their daughters in the United States. Results indicate that fathers' perceptions of a daughter's virginity are shaped b…
Ethnographic Lessons
This article is a series of reflections on the methodological challenges and ethnographic complexities I have encountered while conducting research on the sexualized acts, interactions, and relationships (both voluntary and involuntary) within the family context in Mexican society. I examine how this journey has had a transformative effect on me as a researcher and a sociologist. In particular, I discuss the research surprises, methodological les…
Heterosexual fronteras
Doing Reflexivity
Fathering latina sexualities
Mexican men have been traditionally misrepresented in or omitted from fatherhood scholarship, sexuality and reproductive health-related research, and immigration studies. Based on in-depth tape-recorded interviews with 20 immigrant men living in Los Angeles, this study examined Mexican fathers' views of virginity as they educate their daughters in the United States. Results indicate that fathers' perceptions of a daughter's virginity are shaped b…
Erotic Journeys
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 González-López 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 notion…
Gender and Sexuality in Las Americas
Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture & Chicana/O Sexualities. Edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. 322. $60.00 cloth, $26.95 paper.) Hotel Ritz—Comparing Mexican And U.S. Street Prostitutes: Factors In HIV/AIDS Transmission. By David J. Bellis. (New York: The Haworth Press, 2003. Pp. 128. $24.95 cloth, $17.95 paper.) Cuerpo y Sexualidad. Edited by Francisco Vidal and Carla Donoso. (Santiago, Chile: FLACSO-Chile, Un…
Heterosexual fronteras
Nunca he dejado de tener terror
Nunca he dejado de tener terror: violencia sexual en las vidas de las mujeres mexicanas inmigrantes
Ethnographic Lessons
This article is a series of reflections on the methodological challenges and ethnographic complexities I have encountered while conducting research on the sexualized acts, interactions, and relationships (both voluntary and involuntary) within the family context in Mexican society. I examine how this journey has had a transformative effect on me as a researcher and a sociologist. In particular, I discuss the research surprises, methodological les…
Bridging
The inspirational writings of cultural theorist and social justice activist Gloria Anzaldúa have empowered generations of women and men throughout the world. Charting the multiplicity of Anzaldúa's impact within and beyond academic disciplines, community trenches, and international borders, Bridging presents more than thirty reflections on her work and her life, examining vibrant facets in surprising new ways and inviting readers to engage with t…
Mindful Ethics
Thiefing Sugar
Incest revisited
This article offers a feminist sociological analysis of Otilia’s incestuous relationship with her father—a Catholic priest. This case study is one in a series of Mexican women’s narratives of incestuous relationships that reveal the sexual objectification of girls and women within the context of the family and its roots in a colonial history shaped by race, class, and gender inequalities. In this case study I also explore the complex origins of d…
Marie Keenan, Child Sexual Abuse and The Catholic Church
Family Secrets
"My breasts stopped growing when my grandfather touched them," confides 'Elisa', a young woman who recounts the traumatic incest and sexual abuse she experienced in childhood. In Family Secrets, Gloria González-López tells the life stories of 60 men and women in Mexico who, like Elisa, saw their lives irrevocably changed in the wake of childhood and adolescent incest. In Mexico, a patriarchal, religious society where women are expected to make th…
Sociology of sexualities, Latinas and Latinos
Doing Reflexivity
Latina/o Sexualities
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…
In the flesh
The author incorporates her creative writing to share her untold experience of what Carole J. Sheffield would identify as sexual terrorism. She then engages in a candid dialogue with co-editor Patricia Richards, demonstrating the power of conversation as a feminist method. Inspired by their feminist imagination, they explore ways to construct meaning and produce knowledge beyond conventional, mainstream frameworks in sociology. In this intellectu…
Women's Journey to Empowerment in the 21st Century
Queer family intimacies
This paper presents the rich and detailed sex life stories of two self-identified cisgender gay men. Both recalled in retrospect their romantic and sexual experiences with their respective close in age first cousins during their adolescence. Both men described their experiences as voluntary and a positive influence on their emotional and sexual development as self-identified gay men. The men were born and raised in contrasting contexts: the first…
Gratitude to Ken Plummer
The author weaves her favorite quotes from Ken Plummer’s celebrated book, Telling Sexual Stories with her own voice to offer a modest tribute and express her gratitude to him. In this exercise of creative writing, she celebrates his contributions to her intellectual and professional growth as a feminist ethnographer, a witness to endless sexual stories with populations of Mexican origin in both countries, the United States and Mexico. The author …
Beyond Pleasure and Danger
Sociology (16 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Human sexuality (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Sex work and related issues (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works)