Sexual revolutions in Cuba : passion, politics, and memory / Carrie Hamilton ; foreword by Elizabeth Dore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamilton, Carrie, 1966-

Series:

Envisioning Cuba.

Envisioning Cuba

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex--Cuba--History.

Sex.

Cubans--Sexual behavior--History--Interviews.

Cubans.

Homosexuality--Cuba--History--Interviews.

Homosexuality.

Oral history--Cuba.

Oral history.

Cuba--Social conditions--Interviews.

Cuba.

Cuba--History--Revolution, 1959.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Sexual Revolutions in Cuba Carrie Hamilton delves into the relationship between passion and politics in revolutionary Cuba to present a comprehensive history of sexuality on the island from the triumph of the Revolution in 1959 into the twenty-first century. Drawing on an unused body of oral history interviews as well as press accounts, literary works, and other published sources, Hamilton pushes beyond official government rhetoric and explores how the wider changes initiated by the Revolution have affected the sexual lives of Cuban citizens. She foregrounds the memories and emotions

Contents:

Introduction: sex, politics, and oral history in Cuba

Sexual evolutions

Love and revolution

New women, new men?

Memory, revolution, and homophobia

Homosexual histories

Listening for female same-sex desire

Silence and taboo

Sex in the special period.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908858-7-6

979-88-9313-447-6

1-4696-0188-5

0-8078-8251-8

OCLC:

778454551