ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|20 pages

The Paradox of Cuba's Revolution

chapter 2|39 pages

The Homosexual in the Revolution

chapter 5|41 pages

AIDS: Cuba's Effort to Contain

chapter 6|14 pages

The Cuban Revolution in Crisis