Queering Puerto Rican Women’s Narratives

Meridians ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (S1) ◽  
pp. 279-307
Author(s):  
Lourdes Torres
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Puerto Rican Women ◽  
Women's Narratives

Abstract While in the last decades there has been a proliferation of writings by Latina lesbians who theorize issues of intersectionality, missing still are the voices and analyses of Puerto Rican lesbians who articulate the specificity of Puerto Rican sexual, racial, national, and class dynamics. It is within this context that the author examines Memoir of a Visionary (2002) by Antonia Pantoja and The Noise of Infinite Longing (2004) by Luisita López Torregrosa; the article considers how these recent memoirs engage with intersecting issues in the lives of Puerto Rican women and suggest how shame implicitly conditions the articulation of Puerto Rican identity.

Rates of Cesarean Delivery Among Puerto Rican Women - Puerto Rico and the U.S. Mainland, 1992-2002

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Varela-Flores ◽  
◽  
H. Vázquez-Rivera ◽  
F. Menacker ◽  
Y. Ahmed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Cesarean Delivery ◽  
Puerto Rican Women ◽  
The U.S

Queering Puerto Rican Women's Narratives

Meridians ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lourdes Torres
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Women's Narratives

scholarly journals Soy and Frequent Dairy Consumption with Subsequent Equol Production Reveals Decreased Gut Health in a Cohort of Healthy Puerto Rican Women

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (16) ◽  
pp. 8254
Author(s):  
Mercedes Y. Lacourt-Ventura ◽  
Brayan Vilanova-Cuevas ◽  
Delmarie Rivera-Rodríguez ◽  
Raysa Rosario-Acevedo ◽  
Christine Miranda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gut Microbiota ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Soy Isoflavones ◽  
Gut Health ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Female Population ◽  
Puerto Rican Women ◽  
Dairy Consumption ◽  
Incidence And Mortality ◽  
Next Generation Sequencing Ngs

The U.S. Hispanic female population has one of the highest breast cancer (BC) incidence and mortality rates, while BC is the leading cause of cancer death in Puerto Rican women. Certain foods may predispose to carcinogenesis. Our previous studies indicate that consuming combined soy isoflavones (genistein, daidzein, and glycitein) promotes tumor metastasis possibly through increased protein synthesis activated by equol, a secondary dietary metabolite. Equol is a bacterial metabolite produced in about 20–60% of the population that harbor and exhibit specific gut microbiota capable of producing it from daidzein. The aim of the current study was to investigate the prevalence of equol production in Puerto Rican women and identify the equol producing microbiota in this understudied population. Herein, we conducted a cross-sectional characterization of equol production in a clinically based sample of eighty healthy 25–50 year old Puerto Rican women. Urine samples were collected and evaluated by GCMS for the presence of soy isoflavones and metabolites to determine the ratio of equol producers to equol non-producers. Furthermore, fecal samples were collected for gut microbiota characterization on a subset of women using next generation sequencing (NGS). We report that 25% of the participants were classified as equol producers. Importantly, the gut microbiota from equol non-producers demonstrated a higher diversity. Our results suggest that healthy women with soy and high dairy consumption with subsequent equol production may result in gut dysbiosis by having reduced quantities (diversity) of healthy bacterial biomarkers, which might be associated to increased diseased outcomes (e.g., cancer, and other diseases).

BIRTHPLACE, LENGTH OF TIME IN THE U.S., AND LANGUAGE ARE ASSOCIATED WITH DIET AMONG INNER-CITY PUERTO RICAN WOMEN KEYWORDS

2005 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Himmelgreen ◽  
Ann Bretnall ◽  
Rafael Perez-Escamilla ◽  
Yukuei Peng ◽  
Angela Bermudez
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Puerto Rican Women ◽  
The U.S

Prenatal and Perinatal Factors Associated with Breast-Feeding Initiation among Inner-City Puerto Rican Women

1998 ◽  
Vol 98 (6) ◽  
pp. 657-663 ◽  
Author(s):  
RAFAEL PÉREZ-ESCAMILLA ◽  
DAVID HIMMELGREEN ◽  
SOFIA SEGURA-MILLÁN ◽  
ANIR GONZÁLEZ ◽  
ANN M FERRIS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Breast Feeding ◽  
Perinatal Factors ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Puerto Rican Women

Understanding the Dialogical Experiences of Puerto Rican Women With Fibromyalgia: An Intersectional Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 154041532110646
Author(s):  
Cristina De León-Menjivar
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Rhetorical Theory ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Proper Treatment ◽  
Puerto Rican Women ◽  
Research Gap

Introduction: Fibromyalgia is a condition that is often misunderstood by the medical community. Misunderstandings are exacerbated when a patient is an ethnic minority, and recent literature suggests that ethnic minorities are shown to have a higher prevalence of fibromyalgia. Despite this information, many studies about fibromyalgia are conducted with Anglo-Americans while ethnic minorities are underrepresented. Methods: To address this research gap, this study uses qualitative interviews to discuss the dialogical experiences of Puerto Rican women with fibromyalgia through a combination of intersectional and rhetorical theory. These methodologies can reveal what having various identities can mean when communicating in institutional and cultural settings. Results: The data shows a significant level of gaslighting by providers, which led participants to more aggressively seek proper treatment. Cultural deference towards doctors was also noted as a practice that can backfire, especially when living with a condition that is often dismissed. Conclusion: The results indicate that when the body's truth is filtered through intersectional lenses, this truth can become distorted or lost.

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