Re: Cuban Women: Testimony

[Julio Pino <jpino@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I can recommend two sources on Cuban attitude and practices towards
prostitutes, 1959-early 1990s, both by authors supportive of the Revolution:
"Four Women" by Oscar Lewis, Ruth lewis and Susan Rigdon and    "Sex and
Revolution: Women in Socialist Cuba" by Lois M. Smith and Alfred Padula.
Julio Cesar
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>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
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>> >I would have advocated offering family stipends, educational
>> >opportunities, better economic alternatives, etc. _without_
>> >threatening prostitutes with imprisonment and medicalization.
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>This may be true as a supposition, but I would like to see a solid
evidence for
>it. Has any body written an article on this issue based on stats and reports
>from Cuban prisons? or is this just a Human Rights Advocacy news
propagated by
>the hypocritical west?
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