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Talkin ’ Sex: Chicanas and Mexicanas

Talkin ’ Sex: Chicanas and Mexicanas. Theorize about Silences and Sexual Pleasures Patricia Zavella. COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE (Like water for chocolate ) (1989) LAURA ESQUIVEL. BEFORE WE START…. … I WOULD LIKE YOU TO THINK ABOUT THE ARTICLE WE READ TITLED,

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Talkin ’ Sex: Chicanas and Mexicanas

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  1. Talkin’ Sex: Chicanas and Mexicanas Theorize about Silences and Sexual Pleasures Patricia Zavella COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE (Like water for chocolate) (1989) LAURA ESQUIVEL

  2. BEFORE WE START… • … I WOULD LIKE YOU TO THINK ABOUT THE ARTICLE WE READ TITLED, • “TALKIN’ SEX: CHICANAS AND MEXICANAS” • AND START TO MAKE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THIS ARTICLE AND THE MOVIE, • “LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE” • FOCUSING ON THE IDEAS ARE REPRESENTED BY THE CHARACTERS IN THE MOVIE .

  3. THE PROJECT / interviews (1983) • 17 women: 6 born in Mexico/11 Chicanas • Meanings of silence and pleasure • Tension in taking about sex • Contradictions: acquiescence/ contestation • Language used and body language

  4. PROJECT (2) • Feminists critiqued the Mexican culture: • Virgin-whore (Guadalupe vs. Melinche) • Repressing women’s sexual desires • Catholic Church role (marriage) • Practices to control women’s bodies (clothing) By whom? And how?

  5. PROJECT (3) • Women breaking the silence Consequences? “escándalo” (scandal) • Chicana lesbian theorists and creative writers (resistance to silencing) • Metaphors: “juego and fuego” (play and fire) • Meanings of silence and pleasures

  6. History of sexuality and marital relations • First half of the 20th C: taboo topics • 1930s and 1940s: - The notions of virile macho men and self-sacrificing women were constructed in popular culture. - Female chastity prior to marriage • Ritual ‘Robbing’ (kidnapping) -

  7. History (2) • 1950s: - Urbanization - Feminization of labor force - Increasing migration to USA - Expansion of popular culture - Sexual liberation of women • Late 20th C: - Much regional variation in sexual practices - Globalization

  8. Interesting facts (SURVEY) • First had sexual intercourse by age 15 - 83% young men - 13% women (??) • 2. Use of condoms • 3. Freedom of being openly affectionate with lover • 4. Catholic Church influenced both Mexicans and Chicanas (different ways regarding abortion and contraception) • 5. “The New Mestiza” by Gloria Anzaldúa(La Frontera: more • than a geographic division)

  9. Interesting facts (2) • 6. Mothers warned about men not about • lesbianism • 7. Differences between Mexicans and Chicanas • regarding silence sexuality/shocking • experiences/ sex education… • 8. Sanctions for sexual experimentation - Cochina /dirty - Grosera / crude

  10. Interesting facts (3) • 9. Abuse (context of denial) • 10. Masturbation (a bad thing) • 11. Menstruation • 12. Homosexuality (no education) • 13. Virginity (body= map) 14. Chicanas (temptations offered by USA popular culture and the pressure of peers) • 15. Reputation

  11. Interesting facts (4) • 16. Women body (fat) Rosaura • 17. Quinceañera - Patriarcal control over women’s sexuality - Similar to weddings - Virgen de Guadalupe - Ethnic identity - Celebration of purity - Expression of sexual pleasure

  12. List of protagonists • Write whatever comes to your mind for each character that is related to the article “Talkin’ Sex”. • It can be one word, a sentence, an image, an idea…

  13. Vagina Monologues“Different types of moans” • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apsKJ1H1gyg

  14. TYPES of MOANS!!! • Mountain moan • Baby moan • Doggy moan • Inhibited militant bisexual moan • machine moan • Torture Zen moan • Diva moan • College moan and • Surprise triple orgasms • Clit moan • Vagina moan • Combo clit and vagina moan • Almost moan • Right on it moan • Elegant moan • Grace Slick moan • 40 year old moan • Jewish moan • African-American • Irish moan

  15. bibliography • Aldama, Frederick Luis. Brown on Brown.: Chicano/a representations of gender sexuality and ethnicity. First edition. University of Texas. 2005. Print • González, Juan. Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America. Revised edition. • González, Sylvia A. La Chicana: Guadalupe or Malinche. Comparative Perspectives of Third World Women: The impact of race, sex and class. 1980. Pp 229-250. Print • Snook, Margaret L. Elena Poniatowska’s “La piel del cielo”: Mexican History Written on the Female Body. American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Bridgewater State College. Hispania Vol. 89, No 2, pp 259-267. Print • Winn, Peter. Americas: The Changing Face of Latin American and the Caribbean. Third edition. University of California Press. 2006 Print

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