About Abel Sierra Madero

Abel Sierra Madero is an award-winning Cuban author and scholar. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Havana (2009) and a PhD in Literature from New York University (NYU). Over the last ten years, he has been known for his work on History of Sexuality. Sierra Madero has been awarded the prize Casa de las Américas for the book "Del otro lado del espejo. La sexualidad en la construcción de la nación cubana" (2006).

Has received various awards and fellowships, including The Martin Duberman (CLAGS, CUNY); Research Fellowship, International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS)/Ford Foundation; ERASMUS (European Community); Research Fellowship “Sexualities, Masculinities and Modernities”,Ford Foundation/South-South Exchange Program for Research on the History of Development (SEPHIS); and “Catauro Cubano”, Cuban Book Institute Award for his contribution to the Social Sciences in Cuba.

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Fidel Castro. El Comandante Playboy: Sexo, Revolución y Guerra Fría (Spanish Edition) Apr 3, 2020

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Quizás muy pocos sepan o recuerden que la controversial revista de entretenimiento para hombres, Playboy --creada por Hugh Hefner en 1953, y uno de los medios de más circulación en Estados Unidos durante las décadas de los sesenta y los setenta-- fue un espacio a través del cual Fidel Castro pudo llegar a millones de personas. El libro cuenta, entre otras cosas, la historia de la relación entre el dictador cubano y la revista Playboy. La publicación, como se demuestra en el texto, se convirtió no solo en una plataforma para el Comandante, sino también en una suerte de canal secreto (back channel) desde donde se gestionaron algunas negociaciones entre políticos y lobistas estadounidenses con el gobierno cubano. Este es un relato diferente de la Guerra Fría, construido a partir de fuentes raras y no convencionales como revistas eróticas, tabloides de chismes y tramas de pulp fiction.

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Del otro lado del espejo. La sexualidad en la construcción de la nación cubana (Spanish Edition) Dec 31, 2005

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This book uncovers the role of gender and sexuality discourses in the construction of the Cuban nation and how they have been used to define and regulate the notions of nationality and sovereignty from the nineteenth century to the present. Through archival work and the analysis of war diaries, press campaigns, novels and magazines, the book provides a rigorous historical analysis of how the sexual/gender “others” have been coupled with social and political deviance at different periods in Cuban history. The second part of the book updates this debate through a pioneer ethnographic study of Cuban transvestites, transsexuals, and homosexuals. Abel Sierra Madero has been awarded the 2012 Martin Duberman Fellowship by City
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