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Women S Work In Special Period Cuba
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Author : Daliany Jerónimo Kersh
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-02-14
Women S Work In Special Period Cuba written by Daliany Jerónimo Kersh and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-14 with History categories.
The abrupt loss of Soviet financial support in 1989 resulted in the near-collapse of the Cuban economy, ushering in the almost two decades of austerity measures and severe shortages of food and basic consumer goods referred to as the Special Period. Through the innovative framework of individual and collective memory, Daliany Jerónimo Kersh brings together analysis of press sources and oral histories to offer a compelling portrait of how Cuban women cleverly combined various forms of paid work to make ends meet. Disproportionately impacted by the economic crisis given their role as primary caregivers and household managers and unable to survive on devalued state salaries alone, women often employed informal and illegal earning strategies. As she argues, this regression into gendered work such as cooking, sewing, cleaning, reselling, and providing sexual services precipitated by the post-Soviet crisis to a large extent marked a return to pre-revolutionary gendered divisions of labor.
State Gender And Institutional Change In Cuba S Special Period
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Author : Maxine Molyneux
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
State Gender And Institutional Change In Cuba S Special Period written by Maxine Molyneux and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Cuba categories.
Cuba In The Special Period
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Author : A. Hernandez-Reguant
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-01-05
Cuba In The Special Period written by A. Hernandez-Reguant and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-05 with Social Science categories.
This collection examines Cuban cultural production during the Special Period of the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet Bloc. Contributors address the cultural forms; and the associated ethics and practices of labour, leisure, and bureaucratic organization that arose in the transformation of the socialist cultural infrastructure.
Conceiving Cuba
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Author : Elise Andaya
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2014-05-30
Conceiving Cuba written by Elise Andaya and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-30 with Social Science categories.
After Cuba’s 1959 revolution, the Castro government sought to instill a new social order. Hoping to achieve a new and egalitarian society, the state invested in policies designed to promote the well-being of women and children. Yet once the Soviet Union fell and Cuba’s economic troubles worsened, these programs began to collapse, with serious results for Cuban families. Conceiving Cuba offers an intimate look at how, with the island’s political and economic future in question, reproduction has become the subject of heated public debates and agonizing private decisions. Drawing from several years of first-hand observations and interviews, anthropologist Elise Andaya takes us inside Cuba’s households and medical systems. Along the way, she introduces us to the women who wrestle with the difficult question of whether they can afford a child, as well as the doctors who, with only meager resources at their disposal, struggle to balance the needs of their patients with the mandates of the state. Andaya’s groundbreaking research considers not only how socialist policies have profoundly affected the ways Cuban families imagine the future, but also how the current crisis in reproduction has deeply influenced ordinary Cubans’ views on socialism and the future of the revolution. Casting a sympathetic eye upon a troubled state, Conceiving Cuba gives new life to the notion that the personal is always political.
Cuban Currency
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Author : Esther Katheryn Whitfield
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Cuban Currency written by Esther Katheryn Whitfield and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, during an economic crisis termed its “special period in times of peace,” Cuba began to court the capitalist world for the first time since its 1959 revolution. With the U.S. dollar instated as domestic currency, the island seemed suddenly accessible to foreign consumers, and their interest in its culture boomed. Cuban Currency is the first book to address the effects on Cuban literature of the country’s spectacular opening to foreign markets that marked the end of the twentieth century. Based on interviews and archival research in Havana, Esther Whitfield argues that writers have both challenged and profited from new transnational markets for their work, with far-reaching literary and ideological implications. Whitfield examines money and cross-cultural economic relations as they are inscribed in Cuban fiction. Exploring the work of Zo Valds, Pedro Juan Gutirrez, Antonio Jos Ponte and others, she draws out writers’ engagements with the troublesome commodification of Cuban identity. Confronting the tourist and publishing industries’ roles in the transformation of the Cuban revolution into commercial capital, Whitfield identifies a body of fiction peculiarly attuned to the material and political challenges of the “special period.” Esther Whitfield is assistant professor of comparative literature at Brown University.
Fiesta De Diez Pesos Music And Gay Identity In Special Period Cuba
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Author : Moshe Morad
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-15
Fiesta De Diez Pesos Music And Gay Identity In Special Period Cuba written by Moshe Morad and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with Music categories.
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.
Women And Work In Cuba
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Author : Marie Withers Osmond
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Women And Work In Cuba written by Marie Withers Osmond and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Women categories.
This exploratory study examines how structural conditions and policies in Cuba, which have attempted to implement socialist ideology on gender equality, actually impinge on the everyday lives and perceptions of Cuban women. The paper first outlines the theoretical premises on which socialist policies on work and family were formulated and then presents data on four areas of contemporary state policy with regard to goals and implementation toward increasing women's opportunities. The second section of the paper presents data from in-depth interviews with 61 female factory workers. The results indicate that there are specific structural features that hinder the liberation of Cuban women. The interview data reveal the specific interaction of social class on perceptions of work-family linkages and women's liberation.
Cuba In The Special Period
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Cuba In The Special Period written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Cuba categories.
Women S Work
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-03-06
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The Center for Democracy in the Americas (CDA) has published the results of our two-year study on gender equality in Cuba. In it, we write about Cuba's gender equality achievements that have captured global attention, serious short-comings that hold Cuban women back and the prospects for gender equality as Cuba seeks to reverse its economic crisis. CDA was able to tell this story with the aid of scholars in Cuba and the U.S., and after a comprehensive review of international academic research and studies on the comparative economic, social and political standing of women in Cuba and women globally.
We Are Cuba
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Author : Helen Yaffe
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-06
We Are Cuba written by Helen Yaffe and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-06 with History categories.
The extraordinary account of the Cuban people’s struggle for survival in a post-Soviet world In the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba faced the start of a crisis that decimated its economy. Helen Yaffe examines the astonishing developments that took place during and beyond this period. Drawing on archival research and interviews with Cuban leaders, thinkers, and activists, this book tells for the first time the remarkable story of how Cuba survived while the rest of the Soviet bloc crumbled. Yaffe shows how Cuba has been gradually introducing select market reforms. While the government claims that these are necessary to sustain its socialist system, many others believe they herald a return to capitalism. Examining key domestic initiatives including the creation of one of the world’s leading biotechnological industries, its energy revolution, and medical internationalism alongside recent economic reforms, Yaffe shows why the revolution will continue post-Castro. This is a fresh, compelling account of Cuba’s socialist revolution and the challenges it faces today.