Laboring for the State: Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-1971

ISBN-13: 9781107188679 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 332 str.

Rachel M. Hynson

Opis

The Cuban revolutionary government engaged in social engineering to redefine the nuclear family and organize citizens to serve the state.

Recenzje

'Rachel Hynson has crafted a sophisticated study that highlights the Cuban revolutionary government's limited reach into the intimate lives of its citizens … this is a richly researched and well-crafted study.' Tiffany Sippial, New West Indian Guide

Spis treści

Introduction: socialist morality, the nuclear family, and state labor; 1. In the hands of physicians: abortion, birth control, and claims to women's labor; 2. 'The husband must protect the wife and the latter obey the husband': operation family, wedding palaces, and nuclear families; 3. From the streets to the home: the re-education and resistance of female prostitutes; 4. The elasticity of truth: creating male heads of household through forced labor; Epilogue: the erasure and legacies of four early revolutionary campaigns.