Abstract

After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba, written by Noelle M. Stout

Highlights

  • Based on nearly a decade of ethnographic engagement, the fine-tuned analysis in After Love reveals the ways in which the growth of sex tourism in the “mixed market economy” of post-Soviet Cuba can exacerbate shifts in values, and change Cubans’ social and familial relationships

  • After Love builds on a rich history of scholarship on the political economy of sex and love in the Caribbean to focus on queer intimacy in Havana with varying degrees of commodification

  • Stout details the growth of sex work in the post-Soviet era with the influx of international tourism to Cuba beginning in the 1990s

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Introduction

After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba. Based on nearly a decade of ethnographic engagement, the fine-tuned analysis in After Love reveals the ways in which the growth of sex tourism in the “mixed market economy” of post-Soviet Cuba can exacerbate shifts in values, and change Cubans’ social and familial relationships.

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