“Hamilton makes a wonderful contribution to the social science of the Caribbean and Cuba. With attention to sexuality, gender, race, and class, she clarifies what is romantic about socioeconomic and political change and explores the meaning of such passion across sexualities and political agendas. This book brings much to the table and will be valuable for all who are interested in Cuba, sexuality studies, and the Caribbean.” — A. Lynn Bolles, University of Maryland

“This book is a superb contribution to our understanding of sexuality in Cuba since 1959, a topic which is, regrettably, usually oversimplified and subject to misleading generalizations. Instead, Carrie Hamilton gives us here a study whose scope and ambition are matched by the subtlety with which she approaches the whole question, enabling her subjects to express revealingly all the complexities characterizing life in modern Cuba and, more importantly, the question of sexuality and revolution, thereby also enabling us to get inside the contradictions and nuances of the topic. It is oral history as it should be done, and we are all the wiser as a result.” — Antoni Kapcia, University of Nottingham

“Based on a precious trove of oral histories, this book offers the first comprehensive study of the history of sexuality in post-revolutionary Cuba. A much welcome addition to the scholarship on the Cuban revolution and to studies of gender and sexuality in Latin America.” — Alejandro de la Fuente, University of Pittsburgh