ISBN:
9780520282971
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (291 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version From Cuba with Love : Sex and Money in the Twenty-First Century
DDC:
305.40972910905
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 o
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; From Cuba with Love; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of 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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
