Conceiving Cuba
Use the book Conceiving Cuba Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post Soviet Era and
Kinship and Gender Sixth Edition by Linda Stone and Diane King* I am willing to pay extra if you need to buy
the ebooks.
This assignment has two components:
You should analyze the role of women and men in families in the culture you read about in your chosen
ethnography. In this analysis you may include a discussion of topics such as: economic/labor role, parenthood,
child-rearing, marriage/divorce practices, reproductive issues, sexuality, family/kinship structure, household
composition, or other topics that may be relevant in the book you read. The set of issues you discuss may vary
depending on the book/culture you selected. In your essay you should make connections between the Stone's
Kinship and Gender book (and/or other course materials) and your selected ethnography. This first section
should be the majority of your essay (about 1000 words).
You will do a bit of comparative analysis. Given what you have learned about families in the book you selected,
choose one or two topics to compare with practices in US culture (or if you prefer, your personal experience of
the topic/issue)