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Article: New research on latin american studies from New York University summarized.
- Article from:
- Politics & Government Week
- Article date:
- February 12, 2009
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According to a study from the United States, "Cuban scholars and women's advocates have criticised the widespread emergence of sex tourism in post-Soviet Cuba and attributed prostitution to a crisis in socialist values."
"In response, feminist scholars in the United States and Europe have argued that Cuban analysts promote government agendas and demonise sex workers. Drawing on nineteen months of field research in Havana, challenge this conclusion to demonstrate how queer Cubans condemn sex tourism while denouncing an unconditional allegiance to Cuban nationalism," wrote N.M. Stout and colleagues, New York University.
The researchers concluded: "By ...