Laboring for the State - Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary Cuba, 19591971

Contrary to claims that socialism opposed the family unit, Rachel Hynson argues that the revolutionary Cuban government engaged in social engineering to redefine the nuclear family and organize citizens to serve the state, drawing on Cuban newspapers and periodicals, government documents and speeches, long-overlooked laws, and oral histories.

List of contents

Introduction: socialist morality, the nuclear family, and state labor; 1. In the hands of physicians: abortion, birth control, and claims to women's labor; 2. 'The husband must protect the wife and the latter obey the husband': operation family, wedding palaces, and nuclear families; 3. From the streets to the home: the re-education and resistance of female prostitutes; 4. The elasticity of truth: creating male heads of household through forced labor; Epilogue: the erasure and legacies of four early revolutionary campaigns.

About the author

Rachel Hynson is an independent scholar. She received her Ph.D. in History from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Summary

Contrary to claims that socialism opposed the family unit, Rachel Hynson argues that the revolutionary Cuban government engaged in social engineering to redefine the nuclear family and organize citizens to serve the state, drawing on Cuban newspapers and periodicals, government documents and speeches, long-overlooked laws, and oral histories.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Hynson, Rachel M. Hynson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781107188679
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18867-9
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies; Cambridge Latin American Studi
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Cuba, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Latin America / General, Sociology: family & relationships, c 1960 to c 1970, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, c 1960 to c 1969, Gender studies: women and girls, Sociology: family and relationships