ISBN:
9781137580757
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (259 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Härkönen, Heidi Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba : To Not Die Alone
DDC:
306.85097291
Keywords:
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Abstract:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Bodies, Love, and Life in Urban Havana -- Socialist Efforts to Modernize Family, Gender, and Sexuality -- Post-Soviet Havana -- Negotiating Intimacy, Money, and Reciprocity -- Space and Housing -- Body, Beauty, and Race -- To Not Die Alone -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Kinship as an Idiom for Social Relations -- Kinship over the Life Cycle -- Reciprocity and the Dialectics of Care -- Love, Reproductive Cycle, and Personhood -- Fieldwork in Havana -- Bibliography
Abstract:
Chapter 3: Fertility and Reproduction: Having a Child Is Worth the Trouble -- Deciding over Pregnancy: When to Have a Child? -- Not Planning It -- Love -- Money and Housing: Having the Conditions -- State Involvement in Decisions over Pregnancy -- Infertility -- Waiting for a Newborn: Expectations Regarding a Baby -- Body and Looks -- Baby's Gender -- Kinship as Blood, Nurture, and Biogenetic Ties -- Female Nurturing Care -- Male Material Care: A Child Makes the Father -- State Care: Nurture and Material Contributions -- After Birth: Catholic Baptism -- Godparents -- Naming -- Bibliography
Abstract:
Chapter 4: Becoming a Woman: Quince as a Moment of Female Sexuality -- Beauty and Sexuality -- Mother-Daughter Relation -- Father-Daughter Relation -- Marginal Relations in Quince: Patrilateral and Affine Bonds -- Quince as Reproduction and Producing Fertility -- Quince's History and Relationship with the Socialist State -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Love, Sexuality, and Adult Gender Relations: Nobody Likes Sleeping Alone -- Gendered Attractiveness -- Moral Economies of Gendered Care -- Respect, Control, and Jealousy -- The Breakup of Love: Failing Reciprocal Care -- Sexual Desire and Infidelity
Abstract:
Gendered Violence -- State Discourse on Love and Sexuality -- Harming Sociability -- A Woman Alone: I Have No Luck in Love -- Heterosexuality and Homosexuality -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Old Age, Funerals, and Death: Reciprocating Care -- Old Age and the State -- Old Age as the Peak of a Woman's Authority -- Reintegrating a Father to the Kin Group in Old Age -- Historical Context of Funerals -- Wake: Keeping Company to the Deceased -- Burial: Catholic Last Rites -- Burial Site: Origins and Unity -- Second Burial: Creating Family Continuity -- Death as Connection
Abstract:
Mothers' Day and Fathers' Day -- Mass of the Dead and Spirits -- Inheritance -- Ancestors: Rebirth and Reincarnation -- Church and State: Catholic Life Cycle Rituals -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: The State as Family -- The State and the Dialectics of Care -- Neighbors as Family -- Family Metaphors and the Revolution's Culture of Life -- State Rituals as Family Rituals -- Fidel as Father of the Nation and Absent Presence -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Time, Care, and Kinship -- Bibliography -- Index
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