Heterosexual Havana
Author | : Silje Lundgren |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Heterosexuals |
ISBN | : 9789150622010 |
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Author | : Silje Lundgren |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Heterosexuals |
ISBN | : 9789150622010 |
Author | : Moshe Morad |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2016-04-15 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1317135431 |
The ‘Special Period’ in Cuba was an extended era of economic depression starting in the early 1990s, characterized by the collapse of revolutionary values and social norms, and a way of life conducted by improvised solutions for survival, including hustling and sex-work. During this time there developed a thriving, though constantly harassed and destabilized, clandestine gay scene (known as the ‘ambiente’). In the course of eight visits between 1995 and 2007, the last dozen years of Fidel Castro’s reign, Moshe Morad became absorbed in Havana’s gay scene, where he created a wide social network, attended numerous secret gatherings-from clandestine parties to religious rituals-and observed patterns of behavior and communication. He discovered the role of music in this scene as a marker of identity, a source of queer codifications and identifications, a medium of interaction, an outlet for emotion and a way to escape from a reality of scarcity, oppression and despair. Morad identified and conducted his research in different types of ‘musical space,’ from illegal clandestine parties held in changing locations, to ballet halls, drag-show bars, private living-rooms and kitchens and santería religious ceremonies. In this important study, the first on the subject, he argues that music plays a central role in providing the physical, emotional, and conceptual spaces which constitute this scene and in the formation of a new hybrid ‘gay identity’ in Special-Period Cuba.
Author | : Claudia Lightfoot |
Publisher | : Signal Books |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781902669328 |
An exploration of Havana's history and its paradoxes: a city where architectural treasures survive among the crumbling tenements; where a vibrant street life takes place amidst shortages; and where revolutionary politics, machismo and a thriving black market co-exist.
Author | : Philip Brenner |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Cuba |
ISBN | : 0742555062 |
A collection of essays that explore a wide range of topics related to Cuban politics, economics, foreign policy, social transformation, and culture in the post-Soviet era.
Author | : Emily J. Kirk |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2017-08-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1498557678 |
Cuba’s Gay Revolution explores the unique health-based approach that was employed in Cuba to dramatically change attitudes and policies regarding sexual diversity (LGBTQ) since 1959. It examines leaders in the process to normalize sexual diversity, such as the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) and the National Center of Sexual Education (CENESEX). This book is written for scholars interested in LGBTQ issues, Cuba, and Latin America.
Author | : Marvin Leiner |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2019-05-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000311325 |
In this book, Marvin Leiner analyzes the practice of quarantine in the context of the Cuban Revolution. He also focuses on efforts by Cuban educators to introduce sex education in the schools and to change sexist and homophobic attitudes, discussing their successes and failures with candor and examining the explicit and implicit linkages between machismo and homophobia.
Author | : Heidi Härkönen |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2016-04-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137580763 |
Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba is an ethnographic analysis of gender, kinship, and love in contemporary Cuba. The book documents how low-income Havana residents negotiate their social relations through gendered caring practices over the life cycle from birth to death.
Author | : Karen Dubinsky |
Publisher | : Between the Lines |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1771132701 |
Author | : Lauren Duffy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2020-05-07 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0429638655 |
Cuba has experienced many social, economic, and political changes since Raul Castro retained presidency of the island nation in 2008. This comprehensive volume examines how Cuba has restructured some of its core economic policies in order to tackle stagnation; these include allowing for more legalized private enterprises, reducing the number of State-employed workers, and fostering additional outside investments. The authors explore the surge of entrepreneurial activity in tourism among Cuban residents due to these reforms, whether that be offering new tourism products or expanding traditional ones. Though the current diplomatic climate suggests continued uncertainty, the ripple effect of a potentially thawing relationship between Cuba and the USA resulted in an unexpected surge of international tourists wishing to experience Cuba before it opened to the American travel market. This book highlights the factors that are influencing, and in some cases complicating, tourism planning and development in Cuba. The authors explore a wide range of topics including tourism and land-use policy, competitiveness, responsible practices, gender and ethical advertising, the role of tour guides, emergence of casa particulares, experiential learning and solidarity, and authenticity through local art. This book will interest students, researchers, politicians and investors with a focus on Cuba. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Tourism Planning & Development.
Author | : Noelle M. Stout |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2014-04-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0822376598 |
Focused on the intimate effects of large-scale economic transformations, After Love illuminates the ways that everyday efforts to imagine, resist, and enact market reforms shape sexual desires and subjectivities. Anthropologist Noelle M. Stout arrived in Havana in 2002 to study the widely publicized emergence of gay tolerance in Cuba but discovered that the sex trade was dominating everyday discussions among gays, lesbians, and travestis. Largely eradicated after the Revolution, sex work, including same-sex prostitution, exploded in Havana when the island was opened to foreign tourism in the early 1990s. The booming sex trade led to unprecedented encounters between Cuban gays and lesbians, and straight male sex workers and foreign tourists. As many gay Cuban men in their thirties and forties abandoned relationships with other gay men in favor of intimacies with straight male sex workers, these bonds complicated ideas about "true love" for queer Cubans at large. From openly homophobic hustlers having sex with urban gays for room and board, to lesbians disparaging sex workers but initiating relationships with foreign men for money, to gay tourists espousing communist rhetoric while handing out Calvin Klein bikini briefs, the shifting economic terrain raised fundamental questions about the boundaries between labor and love in late-socialist Cuba.