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Governing the terrain called beauty : the queerness of political economy in Cuba and the United States / Libby Adler
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adler, Libby S., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sexual minorities--Legal status, laws, etc--Cuba.
- Sexual minorities.
- Sexual minorities--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.
- Sexual minorities--Political activity--Cuba.
- Sexual minorities--Political activity--United States.
- Sexual minorities--Cuba--Identity.
- Sexual minorities--United States--Identity.
- Sexual minority community--Cuba.
- Sexual minority community.
- Sexual minority community--United States.
- Sexual minorities--Political activity.
- Sexual minorities--Identity.
- Cuba.
- United States.
- LGBTQ+ activism.
- Sexual identity.
- LGBTQ+ communities.
- LGBTQ+ people.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026
- Summary:
- Revolutionary Cuba does not recognize the liberal rights on which LGBTQ advocates in the United States rely. How then, has legal progress occurred for LGTBQ people in Cuba? This book traces the history of LGBTQ identity and law in Cuba and the US from the turn of the twentieth century through the legalization of same-sex marriage. It investigates material and discursive conditions during and after the Cold War and the under-recognized importance of legal consciousness. Applying comparative legal analysis, genealogy, critical social theories, and interviewing, the book produces an encounter between Cuba and the US that directs attention to the millions of constitutive run-ins that occur daily between the global and the local. Rich and insightful, it reveals how law and identity evolve under imperialism, anxious nationalisms, racial stratification, and economic hardship
- Contents:
- Expulsion of the homosexual figment : 1898-1970s
- A tentative embrace : 1970s-1990s
- Marriage, property, and a hustle
- Queer encounters
- Legal consciousness
- “Dentro de la Revolución”
- Reflections in a Cuban mirror
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed August 3, 2026)
- Other Format:
- Print version: Adler, Libby S. Governing the terrain called beauty
- ISBN:
- 9781009872317
- 1009872311
- OCLC:
- 1580914263
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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