Rachel Hynson

Laboring for the State

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 700g
• ISBN-13: 9781107188679
• ISBN-10: 1107188679
• Artikelnr.: 56973900

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.