TY  - BOOK
AU  - Härkönen,Heidi
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba: To Not Die Alone 
SN  - 9781137580764
AV  - GN301-GN674 
U1  - 306 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan US, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Sex (Psychology)
KW  - Gender expression
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Social Anthropology
KW  - Gender Studies
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 1. Introduction: Bodies, Love, and Life in Urban Havana -- 2. Kinship as an Idiom for Social Relations -- 3. Fertility and Reproduction: Having a Child is Worth the Trouble -- 4. Becoming a Woman: Quince as a Moment of Female Sexuality -- 5. Love, Sexuality, and Adult Gender Relations: Nobody Likes Sleeping Alone -- 6. Old Age, Funerals, and Death: Reciprocating Care -- 7. The State as Family -- Conclusion: Time, Care, and Kinship.
N2  - This book is an ethnographic analysis of gender, kinship, and love in contemporary Cuba. The focus is on the lives of low-income Havana residents over the life cycle from birth to death. The book documents how kinship and love relations are created, reproduced, and negotiated at different life stages through gendered dialectics of care, important to both individuals’ relationships and state politics. In the process, through a variety of practices and meanings, ranging from rituals to understandings of sexual desire, gender becomes affirmed as the central social difference characterizing Cuban society. The book argues that Cubans live their lives embedded in social networks of care that are both emotionally and pragmatically central to individual existence. At the same time, the island’s contemporary political and economic changes carry gendered consequences to everyday relationships, with the potential to introduce unexpected changes to the life cycle
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