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Author Daigle, Megan, 1984- author.

Title From Cuba with love : sex and money in the twenty-first century / Megan Daigle.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 276 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-271) and index.
Contents From mulata to jinetera : prostitution as image of thought -- Love, sex, money, and meaning : interrogating jineterismo on the ground -- Lessons in subterfuge : everyday acts of repression and resistance -- There is only one revolution : state institutions and the moral revolution -- Conduct unbecoming : bodily resistance and the ethics of the self.
Summary "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. 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 draws attention to the violence experienced by these young women at the hands of a moralistic state, an opportunistic police force, and even their own families and partners. 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"--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Women -- Cuba -- Social conditions.
Women.
Cuba.
Social conditions.
Sex tourism -- Cuba.
Sex tourism.
Political violence -- Cuba.
Political violence.
Cuba -- Race relations.
Race relations.
Cuba -- Politics and government -- 1990-
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1990-
Subject Cuba -- Social conditions.
Chronological Term Since 1990
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Sex tourism.
Other Form: Print version: Daigle, Megan, 1984- From Cuba with love 9780520282971 (DLC) 2014034642 (OCoLC)877369615
ISBN 9780520958838 (electronic book)
0520958837 (electronic book)
9780520282971
0520282973
9780520282988
0520282981