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After Love : Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba /

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...

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Auteur principal: Stout, Noelle M., 1976- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London : Duke University Press, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Résumé: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 e.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (248 pages): illustrations
Récompenses:Ruth Benedict Prize, 2014.
ISBN:9780822376590