Overview: Examines women’s labor in post-Soviet Cuba, focusing on five main sources of income that women used to survive, including the black market, entrepreneurship, sex work, tourism sector work, and state eThe abrupt loss of Soviet financial support in 1989 resulted in the near-collapse of the Cuban economy, ushering in the almost two decades of austerity measures and severe shortages of food and basic consumer goods referred to as the Special Period. Through the innovative framework of individual and collective memory, Daliany Jerónimo Kersh brings together analysis of press sources and o
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