1st Edition
Sexual Politics In Cuba Machismo, Homosexuality, And Aids
By Marvin Leiner
Copyright 1994
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
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
Biography
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.
