A study of the Cuban revolutionary Haydée Santamaría paints a moving picture of the transformative potential of revolution for women
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, North America, United States
Cuba’s new woman
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Tag: Women
The prostitute as political subject
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Perceptions of prostitution and policy responses to it have played an important role in shaping Cuba’s political evolution – and ultimately its identity
Categories: Caribbean, Cuba, North America, United States
Women who broke their chains
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A pioneering effort to tell the untold story of how enslaved women in Cuba and Brazil contributed to the process of abolition
Categories: Brazil, Caribbean, Cuba, South America
Mashing machismo
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LGBT activism can change not just laws but attitudes in the macho enclaves of Latin America
Categories: Central America, Nicaragua
Family values
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A father and daughter undertake a novel form of ethnographic study in which they form part of the methodological framework
Categories: Brazil, South America
A tasty morsel
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In her own inimitable way, Argentina’s favourite cook Doña Petrona C de Gandulfo put spice and texture into national identity
Categories: Argentina, South America
Towards a regional feminism
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A pioneering examination of the impact of North American integration on gender
Categories: Canada, Mexico, North America, United States
She gods
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A timely study of Mexican icons of the divine feminine offers a new perspective on the history of religion at a time when the Church is gender confused
Categories: Mexico, North America
Feast of inequality
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A collection of essays that weaves together diverse approaches to inequality in Latin America provides a toolbox of sharp instruments with which to dissect the region’s condition
Categories: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North America, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, South America, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
Sexual Revolutions in Cuba
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Sexual Revolutions in Cuba: Passion, Politics, and Memory, Carrie Hamilton, 2012, University of North Carolina Press