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.
By:
Megan D. Daigle
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 635g
ISBN: 9780520282971
ISBN 10: 0520282973
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 16 January 2015
Audience:
College/higher education
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgments Introduction: Ochun and Yemaya 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 Malecon Notes Bibliography Index
Megan Daigle is a postdoctoral fellow at the Gothenburg Centre for Globalization and Development.
Reviews for From Cuba with Love: Sex and Money in the Twenty-First Century
She has succeeded -- crafting an engrossing, complex text that will be useful for scholars across a wide range of disciplines: women and gender studies, sociology, political science, criminology, law and society, and international studies. Additionally, her strong methodological focus is a useful guide for students beginning fieldwork with hidden populations or engaging controversial topics. Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books
