Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era

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Conceiving Cuba Conceiving Cuba Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era ELISE ANDAYA RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, AND LONDON LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Andaya, Elise, 1976Conceiving Cuba : reproduction, women, and the state in post-Soviet Cuba / Elise Andaya. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8135-6520-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8135-6519-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8135-6521-7 (e-book) 1. Human reproduction—Political aspects—Cuba. 2. Reproductive rights—Cuba. 3. Family planning—Government policy—Cuba. 4. Women’s rights—Cuba. 5. Women— Government policy—Cuba. 6. Women and socialism—Cuba. 7. Cuba—Population policy. I. Title. HQ766.5.C8A64 2014 363.9'6097291—dc23 2013037738 A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library. Copyright © 2014 by Elise Andaya All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 106 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. Visit our website: http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu Manufactured in the United States of America To my mother and father, Barbara and Leonard Andaya, and to my children, Mateo and Zoe Frank ...