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Sexual revolutions in Cuba: passion, politics, and memory
In: Envisioning Cuba
"In Sexual Revolutions in Cuba Carrie Hamilton delves into the relationship between passion and politics in revolutionary Cuba to present a comprehensive history of sexuality on the island from the triumph of the Revolution in 1959 into the twenty-first century. Drawing on an unused body of oral history interviews as well as press accounts, literary works, and other published sources, Hamilton pushes beyond official government rhetoric and explores how the wider changes initiated by the Revolution have affected the sexual lives of Cuban citizens. She foregrounds the memories and emotions of ordinary Cubans and compares these experiences with changing policies and wider social, political, and economic developments to reveal the complex dynamic between sexual desire and repression in revolutionary Cuba. Showing how revolutionary and prerevolutionary values coexist in a potent and sometimes contradictory mix, Hamilton addresses changing patterns in heterosexual relations, competing views of masculinity and femininity, same-sex relationships and homophobia, AIDS, sexual violence, interracial relationships, and sexual tourism. Hamilton's examination of sexual experiences across generations and social groups demonstrates that sexual politics have been integral to the construction of a new revolutionary Cuban society."--Book details
Sexual revolutions in Cuba: passion, politics, and memory
In: Envisioning Cuba
"In Sexual Revolutions in Cuba Carrie Hamilton delves into the relationship between passion and politics in revolutionary Cuba to present a comprehensive history of sexuality on the island from the triumph of the Revolution in 1959 into the twenty-first century. Drawing on an unused body of oral history interviews as well as press accounts, literary works, and other published sources, Hamilton pushes beyond official government rhetoric and explores how the wider changes initiated by the Revolution have affected the sexual lives of Cuban citizens. She foregrounds the memories and emotions of ordinary Cubans and compares these experiences with changing policies and wider social, political, and economic developments to reveal the complex dynamic between sexual desire and repression in revolutionary Cuba. Showing how revolutionary and prerevolutionary values coexist in a potent and sometimes contradictory mix, Hamilton addresses changing patterns in heterosexual relations, competing views of masculinity and femininity, same-sex relationships and homophobia, AIDS, sexual violence, interracial relationships, and sexual tourism. Hamilton's examination of sexual experiences across generations and social groups demonstrates that sexual politics have been integral to the construction of a new revolutionary Cuban society."--Book details
Women and ETA: the gender politics of radical Basque nationalism
At a time when conflicts in Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere are highlighting women?s roles as armed activists and combatants, Women and ETA offers the first book-length study of women?s participation in Spain?s oldest armed movement. Drawing on a unique body of oral history interviews, archival material and published sources, this book shows how women?s participation in radical Basque nationalism has changed from the founding of ETA in 1959 to the present. It analyses several aspects of women?s nationalist activism: collaboration and direct activism in ETA, cultural movements, motherhood
Book Review: What Comes After Entanglement? Activism, Anthropocentrism, and an Ethics of Exclusion by Eva Haifa Giraud
In: Feminist review, Band 126, Heft 1, S. 199-201
ISSN: 1466-4380
Sex, Work, Meat: The Feminist Politics of Veganism
In: Feminist review, Band 114, Heft 1, S. 112-129
ISSN: 1466-4380
Since the publication of The Sexual Politics of Meat in 1990, activist and writer Carol J. Adams (2000 [1990]) has put forth a feminist defence of veganism based on the argument that meat consumption and violence against animals are structurally related to violence against women, and especially to pornography and prostitution. Adams' work has been influential in the growing fields of animal studies and posthumanism, where her research is frequently cited as the prime example of vegan feminism. However, her particular radical feminist framework, including her anti-pornography and anti-prostitution arguments, are rarely acknowledged or critiqued. This article challenges the premises of Adams' argument, demonstrating that her version of vegan feminism is based upon an unsubstantiated comparison between violence against women and violence against other-than-human animals, and on the silencing and exclusion of sex workers as subjects. The article contests the limited reading of Adams, and of feminism, offered in some key works in animal studies and posthumanism, at the same time that it recognises the need to challenge the anthropocentrism evident in much feminist theory. By way of alternative approaches to the sexual politics of veganism, the article highlights the interventions of artist and activist Mirha-Soleil Ross, proposing that her situated and embodied commitment to animal rights brings sex worker agency into the story, while resisting simple comparisons among different forms of violence. The concerns raised by Ross overlap in compelling ways with recent research in performance studies and labour history, bringing the question of work and workers, animal and human, to the fore. These studies point towards a potentially more useful framework than that of Adams for understanding the human violence suffered by different species, including those destined to be eaten by people.
Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era, written by Elise Andaya
In: New West Indian guide: NWIG = Nieuwe west-indische gids, Band 90, Heft 1-2, S. 137-138
ISSN: 2213-4360
Noelle M. Stout, After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2014), pp. ix + 238, £55.00, £15.99 pb
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 47, Heft 2, S. 436-437
ISSN: 1469-767X
Noelle M. Stout, After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2014), pp. ix + 238, £55.00, £15.99 pb
In: Journal of Latin American studies, Band 47, Heft 2, S. 436-437
ISSN: 0022-216X
Book Review: ¡venceremos? The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba
In: Feminist review, Band 106, Heft 1, S. e3-e5
ISSN: 1466-4380
Interview: Norma Guillard Limonta with Carrie Hamilton, Havana, April 2013
In: Feminist review, Band 106, Heft 1, S. 104-121
ISSN: 1466-4380
Book Review: Estado de Wonderbra: Entretejiendo Narraciones Feminitas Sobre las Violencias de Género
In: Feminist review, Band 103, Heft 1, S. e1-e3
ISSN: 1466-4380
Sexual Politics and Socialist Housing: Building Homes in Revolutionary Cuba
In: Gender & history, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 608-627
ISSN: 1468-0424
This article examines the interconnectedness of home and housing in oral history interviews with Cubans about their lives since the revolution of 1959. Historians and other scholars of the Cuban Revolution usually treat housing and home as separate issues. This article historicises the relationship between housing policy and the politics of home and family in revolutionary Cuba, drawing on feminist critiques of socialist housing policy as well as feminist and queer theorisations of sexuality and space. I conclude by making the case for comparative histories of sexuality and housing, arguing that an analysis of housing highlights intersections of class, race, gender and sexuality.
The Gender Politics of Political Violence: Women Armed Activists in ETA
In: Feminist review, Band 86, Heft 1, S. 132-148
ISSN: 1466-4380
This article aims to contribute to the developing area of feminist scholarship on women and political violence, through a study of women in one of Europe's oldest illegal armed movements, the radical Basque nationalist organization ETA. By tracing the changing patterns of women's participation in ETA over the past four decades, the article highlights the historical factors that help explain the choice of a small number of Basque women to participate directly in political violence, and shows how these factors have differed from those for men. While the gender politics of radical nationalism are intricately linked to cross-cultural associations of militarism with certain forms of masculinity, the article also stresses the importance of understanding women's activism in ETA in the context of the organization's characteristic as an ethnic nationalist movement, as well as the wider historical circumstances of the movement's development, including the modernization of Spanish and Basque society over the past four decades. Although comparisons with women in other armed movements are possible, such historical specificities undermine any attempt to construct a universal theory of women and 'terrorism', such as Robin Morgan's 'couple terrorism' thesis. Finally, the article examines the changing representations of female ETA activists in the Spanish and Basque media. Although women ETA activists are now regarded as 'normal', popular representations continue to link women's armed activism with deviant sexuality and the transgression of their natural destiny as mothers. The different treatment of women is evident as well in claims of sexual torture made by some detainees. The article concludes that although the participation of women in political violence poses disquieting questions for the largely anti-militarist women's movement, case studies of women in armed organizations, as well as their place in the wider practices of conflict, are an important contribution both to feminist debates about violence and to wider studies of political violence.
Political Violence and Body Language in Life Stories of Women ETA Activists
In: Signs: journal of women in culture and society, Band 32, Heft 4, S. 911-932
ISSN: 1545-6943