Book Review, Everyday Life and Love in Post-Soviet Cuba: Intimacy and Economic Transformation

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Everyday Life and Love in Post-Soviet Cuba: Intimacy and Economic Transformation
by Florence E. Babb

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

Stout Noelle M. After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014.

Some of the most productive discussion on sexual cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean has emerged from research carried out in Cuba over the past two decades. Contributions include studies of sex and romance tourism (Cabezas, 2009), race and queer sexuality (Allen, 2011), interracial love and marriage (Fernandez, 2010), and the cultural politics of Cuban queers on and off the island (Quiroga, 2000). Noelle M. Stout’s After Love fits squarely into this body of work, contributing significantly to what we know of the remarkable turns in Cuban tolerance, even support, though not yet acceptance, of sexual difference from the time of the Special Period and economic crisis in the post-Soviet 1990s through the present. Stout’s project is notable for its broad embrace of multiple forms of sexual difference and experience and for a highly readable style that will make it appealing to diverse readers. Following the book’s introduction, she presents five substantive chapters that take us from the historical setting to an inside look at the lives of gay men and lesbians, sex workers, and sex tourists to a concluding chapter on the politics of intimacy and solidarity in Cuba.






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