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From Cuba with Love deals with love, sexuality, and politics in contemporary Cuba. In this beautiful narrative, Megan Daigle explores the role of women in Cuban political culture by examining the rise of economies of sex, romance, and money since the early 1990s. Daigle draws attention to the violence experienced by young women suspected of involvement with foreigners at the hands of a moralistic state, an opportunistic police force, and even their own families and partners. Investigating the lived realities of the Cuban women (and some men) who date tourists and offering a unique perspective on the surrounding debates, From Cuba with Love raises issues about women's bodies-what they can or should do and, equally, what can be done to them. Daigle's provocative perspective will make readers question how race and politics in Cuba are tied to women and sex, and the ways in which political power acts directly on the bodies of individuals through law, policing, institutional programs, and social norms.

Women --- Sex tourism --- Political violence --- Violence --- Political crimes and offenses --- Terrorism --- Sex tours --- Sex-oriented businesses --- Tourism --- Social conditions. --- Cuba --- Race relations. --- Politics and government --- Sex industry --- 21st century cuba. --- bodily resistance. --- contemporary cuba. --- cuba. --- cuban culture. --- cuban women. --- cultural studies. --- ethics. --- feminism. --- feminist theory. --- gender and women studies. --- gender studies. --- image of thought. --- institutional programs. --- love. --- money. --- moral revolution. --- moralistic state. --- police force. --- policing. --- political cultural studies. --- political power. --- politics. --- prostitution. --- race and politics. --- repression. --- resistance. --- romance. --- sex. --- sexual tourism. --- sexuality. --- social norms. --- state institutions. --- tourist. --- violence. --- women and sex. --- womens bodies.