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From Cuba with Love : Sex and Money in the Twenty-First Century / Megan D. Daigle.
De Gruyter University of California Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Daigle, Megan D., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Cuba--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Sex tourism--Cuba.
- Sex tourism.
- Political violence--Cuba.
- Political violence.
- Cuba--Race relations.
- Cuba.
- Cuba--Politics and government--1990-.
- Cuba--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (291 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- From Cuba with Love deals with love, sexuality, and politics in contemporary Cuba. In this beautiful narrative, Megan Daigle explores the role of women in Cuban political culture by examining the rise of economies of sex, romance, and money since the early 1990s. Daigle draws attention to the violence experienced by young women suspected of involvement with foreigners at the hands of a moralistic state, an opportunistic police force, and even their own families and partners. Investigating the lived realities of the Cuban women (and some men) who date tourists and offering a unique perspective on the surrounding debates, From Cuba with Love raises issues about women's bodies-what they can or should do and, equally, what can be done to them. Daigle's provocative perspective will make readers question how race and politics in Cuba are tied to women and sex, and the ways in which political power acts directly on the bodies of individuals through law, policing, institutional programs, and social norms.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Ochún and Yemayá
- 1. From Mulata to Jinetera: Prostitution as Image of Thought
- 2. Love, Sex, Money, and Meaning: Interrogating Jineterismo on the Ground
- 3. Lessons in Subterfuge: Everyday Acts of Repression and Resistance
- 4. There Is Only One Revolution: State Institutions and the Moral Revolution
- 5. Conduct Unbecoming: Bodily Resistance and the Ethics of the Self
- Conclusion: On the Malecón
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780520282988
- 0520282981
- 9780520958838
- 0520958837
- OCLC:
- 897467042
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