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After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba
Noelle M. Stout
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Paperback. Focused on the intimate effects of large-scale economic transformations, this book illuminates how everyday efforts to imagine, resist, and enact market reforms shape sexual desires and subjectivities. Num Pages: 248 pages, 11 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KJ; JFC; JFSK; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 346.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822356851
SKU
V9780822356851
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About Noelle M. Stout
Noelle M. Stout is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at New York University.
Reviews for After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba
"Immersing herself in Havana’s gay culture, Stout, an American anthropologist, gives readers a street-level view of the turbulent changes under way in Cuba, as Cuban society gradually transitions from conformist socialism to a more market-oriented individualism."
Richard Feinberg
Foreign Affairs
“As an ethnography, After Love gives a richly evidenced account of how Latin America’s neoliberalization changes the ... Read more
Richard Feinberg
Foreign Affairs
“As an ethnography, After Love gives a richly evidenced account of how Latin America’s neoliberalization changes the ... Read more