Summary Of Guadalupe The Sex Goddess By Sandra Cisneros

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In some cases, particularly in a minority group, talking about one’s sexual lives are not common. Nonetheless, many people believe that when it comes to sex, people has the freedom to make choices to who and when to be sexually active. Most of the time, race, gender, and sexuality shaped sexual agency by influencing their decisions towards their sexual lives. In this essay, I will discuss how Filipinas and Latinas are influenced by their race, gender, and sexuality when it comes to their sexual agency.
In the reading Guadalupe the Sex Goddess by Sandra Cisneros, she discussed how race affects one’s behavior by comparing white women and Latinas. She discussed how white women is comfortable with their own body, dressing up in the locker rooms unashamed to be naked in front of anyone, while Latinas hid and get dressed in a bathroom stall. She also mentioned that she is “... obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her own skin,” (p.166). Although this is not about being sexually active, being comfortable with your own body is important when it comes to your sexual lives. While Cisneros praise white women’s …show more content…

This means that there are certain rules, yet few or even no one wants to talk about it. For most women, we often hear our parents, or mostly our mothers saying “Don’t get pregnant! But no one tells you how not to,” (Guadalupe the Sex Goddess, p.165). And since both cultures are religious, Cisneros and Espiritu mentioned how Latinas and Filipinas are expected to be virgin until they are married. This is how sexuality and again culture affects sexual agency. Most of the time, women are affected when it comes to sexuality. If a woman is sexually active she is considered as bad, not worthy, or basically immoral, but if a woman is a virgin, whatever she do, as long as she is a virgin, she is considered as a good woman, this is also known as the purity

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