Book review

Footnotes

1. Sociologist Marta Nuñez, journalists Mirta Rodríguez Calderón (Bohemia) and Sara Más (Granma).

2. Ania Terrero, “Women and employment, where are the gaps?” http://www.cubadebate.cu/especiales/2021/08/01/mujeres-y-empleo-donde-estan-las-brechas/print/ (accessed from [e-mail], August 3, 2021).

3. Staying in Cuban households over years of the 1990s, I saw that most women worked outside the home and did traditional “women's work” at home. However, in 1994, renting a room in the apartment of a young couple (both employed technicians), I saw the husband sharing the housework - hanging wet clothing on indoor lines, preparing food, washing dishes, etc. But he was much younger than other men I saw in close proximity in those years.

4. By 2021, one could get a license to (legally) do manicures and other small, individual services.

5. Sex work, whether obvious on the street or in its more subtle forms, had been virtually eliminated by the revolutionary energies devoted to job training and rehabilitation in the 1960s; hence, the shock at its reappearance alongside the explosion in Cuban tourism.