Winner
The Ruth Benedict Prize, 2014
Finalist
Lambda Literary Awards, 2015
Finalist
Gregory Bateson Book Prize, 2015
Focused on the intimate effects of the post-communist transition in Cuba, After Love illuminates how everyday efforts to imagine and enact market reforms shape queer desire and subjectivity.
The sex trade was largely eradicated in Cuba following the 1959 revolution. After the reintroduction of foreign tourism to Cuba in the 1990s, sex work exploded in Havana. The rise of the tourist sex trade inspired robust homoerotic economies. This sudden commodification of sex and intimacy led to profound changes in the lives of Cubans with nonconforming genders and sexualities, changes that threatened to undermine the fragile rise of gay tolerance in Cuba.
By detailing the unprecedented encounters among sex workers, gay foreign tourists, and queer Cubans, After Love shows how the transition to post-communism raised fundamental questions about the boundaries between labor and love.
Winner
The Ruth Benedict Prize, 2014
Finalist
Lambda Literary Awards, 2015
Finalist
Gregory Bateson Book Prize, 2015
Focused on the intimate effects of the post-communist transition in Cuba, After Love illuminates how everyday efforts to imagine and enact market reforms shape queer desire and subjectivity.
The sex trade was largely eradicated in Cuba following the 1959 revolution. After the reintroduction of foreign tourism to Cuba in the 1990s, sex work exploded in Havana. The rise of the tourist sex trade inspired robust homoerotic economies. This sudden commodification of sex and intimacy led to profound changes in the lives of Cubans with nonconforming genders and sexualities, changes that threatened to undermine the fragile rise of gay tolerance in Cuba.
By detailing the unprecedented encounters among sex workers, gay foreign tourists, and queer Cubans, After Love shows how the transition to post-communism raised fundamental questions about the boundaries between labor and love.