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After Love : Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stout, Noelle.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gays--Cuba.
- Gender identity--Cuba.
- Homosexuality--Cuba--History--20th century.
- Gay people--History--20th century--Cuba.
- Gay people.
- Homosexuality--Cuba.
- Homosexuality.
- Gender identity.
- Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people.
- Hispanic LGBTQ+ people.
- Local Subjects:
- Gays--Cuba.
- Gender identity--Cuba.
- Homosexuality--Cuba--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Focused on the intimate effects of large-scale economic transformations, After Love illuminates the ways that everyday efforts to imagine, resist, and enact market reforms shape sexual desires and subjectivities. Anthropologist Noelle M. Stout arrived in Havana in 2002 to study the widely publicized emergence of gay tolerance in Cuba but discovered that the sex trade was dominating everyday discussions among gays, lesbians, and travestis. Largely eradicated after the Revolution, sex work, including same-sex prostitution, exploded in Havana when the island was opened to foreign tourism in the e
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Can't Be Bought or Sold? - Love and Intimacy in the Aftermath of Crisis; Chapter 1: "Tolerated, Not Accepted" - The Historical Context of Queer Critiques; Chapter 2: "A Normal Fag with a Job" - The Complicated Desires of Urban Gays; Chapter 3: "Tell Me You Love Me" - Urban Gay Men Negotiate Commodified Sex; Chapter 4: "Smarter Than You Think" - Sex, Desire, and Labor Among Hustlers; Chapter 5: "Get Off the Bus" - Sex Tourism, Patronage, and Queer Commodities; Conclusion: Love in Crisis - The Politics of Intimacy and Solidarity; Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822376590
- 0822376598
- OCLC:
- 1170510281
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