SOCIOL 2Q06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Special Period, Cuban Law, Elderly Care
11 May 2016
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Applying standpoint sociology and transnational feminism to a case-study of the. Challenging western ethnocentric patronizing claims about third world women and western feminist frameworks imposed over women"s voices and actual experiences (transnational) Viewing third word women subjects and as capable of liberating themselves (transnational) Importance of class -- how rejection of capitalism has enabled an advance in the status of women due to overall improvement in human development such as health, education, employment, and political participation (transnational) Look at concrete evidence of everyday lives of women in cuba with regards to: laws, justice system, culture, organizations, political system, health, paid work, housework. State-led resistance to neoliberalism: the socialist alternative in cuba. Cuba"s post-colonial society: from war of independence (1898) until the revolution (1959) 70% of land owned by foreigners (mostly us) Changes after the 1959 revolution (building a socialist model) Nationalized foreign-owned properties -- turned into schools, museums, hospitals, hotels. Implemented an agrarian reform -- (redistribution of land)
