Description: Further DetailsTitle: Conceiving CubaCondition: NewSubtitle: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet EraAuthor: Elise AndayaFormat: HardbackISBN-10: 0813565200EAN: 9780813565200ISBN: 9780813565200Publisher: Rutgers University PressGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, History, Gender Sex & RelationshipsRelease Date: 05/30/2014Description: Received an Honorable Mention for the 2015 First Michelle Rosaldo Prize for a First Book in Feminist Anthropology from the Association for Feminist AnthropologyWinner of the Adele E. Clarke Book Award from ReproNetwork After Cuba’s 1959 revolution, the Castro government sought to instill a new social order. Hoping to achieve a new and egalitarian society, the state invested in policies designed to promote the well-being of women and children. Yet once the Soviet Union fell and Cuba’s economic troubles worsened, these programs began to collapse, with serious results for Cuban families.Conceiving Cuba offers an intimate look at how, with the island’s political and economic future in question, reproduction has become the subject of heated public debates and agonizing private decisions. Drawing from several years of first-hand observations and interviews, anthropologist Elise Andaya takes us inside Cuba’s households and medical systems. Along the way, she introduces us to the women who wrestle with the difficult question of whether they can afford a child, as well as the doctors who, with only meager resources at their disposal, struggle to balance the needs of their patients with the mandates of the state. Andaya’s groundbreaking research considers not only how socialist policies have profoundly affected the ways Cuban families imagine the future, but also how the current crisis in reproduction has deeply influenced ordinary Cubans’ views on socialism and the future of the revolution. Casting a sympathetic eye upon a troubled state, Conceiving Cuba gives new life to the notion that the personal is always political.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 18mmItem Weight: 399gRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Conceiving Cuba
Title: Conceiving Cuba
Subtitle: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era
ISBN-10: 0813565200
EAN: 9780813565200
ISBN: 9780813565200
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships
Release Date: 05/30/2014
Release Year: 2014
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Conceiving Cuba : Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies, Reproductive Medicine & Technology, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Civil Rights, Abortion & Birth Control, Women's Studies, World / Caribbean & Latin American, Anthropology / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.1 Oz
Author: Elise Andaya
Item Length: 9.3 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Medical
Item Width: 6.3 in
Format: Hardcover
