Sexual Politics in Cuba: Machismo, Homosexuality, and AIDS

ISBN-13: 9780367302603 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 184 str.

Marvin Leiner

Opis

This book examines the prevalence of sexism and homophobia on the attitudes towards HIV, focusing on the quarantining of the HIV positive and efforts by Cuban educators to introduce sex education in the schools and to change sexist and homophobic attitudes.

Spis treści

Preface -- The Paradox of Cuba's Revolution -- The Homosexual in the Revolution -- Changing the Role of Women and Breaking the Taboo: Initiating Sex Education -- The Audacious Subject: The Sex Education Program -- AIDS: Cuba's Effort to Contain -- The Cuban Revolution in Crisis

O autorze

Marvin Leiner is emeritus professor of education at Queens College of the City University of New York. He is author of Children Are the Revolution: Day Care in Cuba and editor of Children of the Cities: Education of the Powerless. An internationally known scholar on Cuban schools, he has made frequent research trips to Cuba over the past twenty-five years.