Velvet Barrios
Subtitle: Popular Culture & Chicana/o Sexualities
Contributors: Alicia Gaspar de Alba (Foreword); Tomas Ybarra-Frausto (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: December 20, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781403960962
Subjects: Customs & folklore; Ethnic studies; Sex & sexuality; Social & cultural anthropology; Social groups & communities; Women's studies; United States; Minority Studies - General; Masculinity in popular culture; Social Science; Sociology; Multicultural Nonfiction; Anthropology - General; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social Science / Minority Studies; Mexican American women; Mexican Americans; Sexual behavior
First sentence: In many ways it is no surprise that a novel set in a small town in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of New Mexico-where penitent brothers and miracle-seeking pilgrims visit the sacred grounds of Chimayo-would integrate the medieval religious genre of the vidas de santos (the lives of saints).