Sexual Politics In Cuba: Machismo, Homosexuality, And Aids

by Marvin Leiner

Overview

In this book, Marvin Leiner analyzes the practice of quarantine in the context of the Cuban Revolution. He also focuses on efforts by Cuban educators to introduce sex education in the schools and to change sexist and homophobic attitudes, discussing their successes and failures with candor and examining the explicit and implicit linkages between machismo and homophobia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367302603
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/09/2020
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	5.94(w) x 9.31(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

``The way in which any nation responds to a disease such as AIDS `reveals its deepest cultural, social, and moral values,' '' posits Leiner (education, Queens Coll., CUNY) in this latest volume of his ongoing study of social and educational changes in Cuba since the Revolution of 1959, which he began with Children Are the Revolution: Day Care in Cuba ( LJ 5/15/74). The extremely readable text, extensively footnoted, explores the complex relationships of AIDS, homosexuality, homophobia, socialism, the devaluation of women, Catholicism, and machismo in a country where AIDS is ``by far, an epidemic spread through sexual contacts among heterosexuals.'' Rejecting the benefits of education and quarantining people who test HIV-positive, a misguided denial of human rights, is representative of Cuba's current crisis. For Latin American and AIDS collections.-- James E. Van Buskirk, San Francisco P . L.

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