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C.B. Smith Sr. Centennial Chair # 1 in US-Mexico Relations
Professor of Sociology
The University of Texas at Austin
BOOKS + ARTICLES
Senderos feministas: Andares sentipensantes en la academia y durante la pandemia. México: Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, 2022. (Foreword by Cecilia Menjívar).
Secretos de familia: Incesto y violencia sexual en México. Siglo XXI Editores, 2019. (Foreword by Marcela Lagarde y de los Ríos) [Spanish translation of Family Secrets]
Co-edited with AnaLouise Keating. Bridging: How Gloria Anzaldúa’s Life and Work Transformed Our Own. University of Texas Press, 2011.
Travesías eróticas: La vida sexual de mujeres y hombres migrantes de México. Mexico City: Grupo Editorial Miguel Angel Porrúa, 2009. [Spanish translation of Erotic Journeys]
Family Secrets: Stories of Incest and Sexual Violence in Mexico. New York University Press, 2015.
¡¿Cuál frontera?! Sexualidad y género en el México extenso. México: Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, 2016. (Foreword by Marcela Lagarde y de los Ríos and Afterword by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo).
Erotic Journeys: Mexican Immigrants and Their Sex Lives. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
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SELECTED ARTICLES
Beyond pleasure and danger: Life-changing feminist lessons.
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Queer family intimacies: sex and love between primos in Mexico.
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Gratitude to Ken Plummer
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In the flesh
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The Borders of the #MeToo: A Conversation about Sexual Violence Against Women in Ciudad Juárez. Co-authored with Lydia Cordero Cabrera.
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Incest Revisited: A Mexican Catholic Priest and His Daughter​​
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Mindful Ethics: Comments on Informant-Centered Practices in Sociological Research​
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Ethnographic Lessons: Researching Incest in Mexican Families ​​
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Heterosexual Fronteras: Immigrant Mexicanos, Sexual Vulnerabilities, and Survival​
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Epistemologies of the Wound: Anzaldúan Theories and Sociological Research on Incest in Mexican Society​
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Fathering Latina Sexualities: Mexican Men and the Virginity of Their Daughters​
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Sociology of sexualities, Latinas and Latinos: A review of the field
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