@article{754970,
      recid = {754970},
      author = {Härkönen, Heidi,},
      title = {Kinship, love, and life cycle in contemporary Havana, Cuba  to not die alone / [electronic resource] :},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {"Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana,  Cuba focuses on the lives of low-income Havana residents  over the life cycle from birth to death. The book documents  how kinship and love relations are created, reproduced, and  negotiated at different life stages through gendered  dialectics of care, important to both individuals'  relationships and state politics. In the process, through a  variety of practices and meanings ranging from rituals to  understandings of sexual desire, gender becomes affirmed as  the central social difference characterizing Cuban society.  The book argues that Cubans live their lives embedded in  social networks of care that are both emotionally and  pragmatically central to individual existence. At the same  time, the island's contemporary political and economic  changes carry gendered consequences to everyday  relationships, with the potential to introduce unexpected  changes to the life cycle"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/754970},
}