Transcuba
By: Mariette Pathy Allen
Publisher: Daylight Community Arts Foundation
Published: 2014
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9780988983137
Subjects: Photographs; Portrait photography; Portraits; Interviews; Transsexuals; Transgender people; Social conditions; Pictorial works
Other titles: Mariette Pathy Allen :
Description: "For more than 30 years, New York based photographer and painter Mariette Pathy Allen has been documenting transgender culture worldwide; in 2004 she won the Lambda Literary Award for her monograph The Gender Frontier. In her new publication, TransCuba, Allen focuses on the transgender community of Cuba, especially its growing visibility and acceptance in a country whose government is transitioning into a more relaxed model of communism under Raúl Castro's presidency. This publication therefore records a cultural watershed within Cuba. In addition to color photographs and interviews by Allen, the book also includes a contribution from Raúl Castro's daughter, Mariela Castro, who is the director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education in Havana. In 2005, Castro proposed a project, which became law three years later, to allow transgender individuals to receive sex reassignment surgery and change their legal gender."
Notes: Place of publication from publisher's website.

Parallel text in English and Spanish.