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Sexual Politics in Cuba : Machismo, Homosexuality, and Aids
ISBN: 9781000239447
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Taylor & Francis Group
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time
Subjects: Social Science;

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.

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.