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

by Noelle Stout

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822356732
• ISBN13: 9780822356738
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"