Books

Carrie Hamilton has written perhaps the most ground-breaking study of sexuality in Revolutionary Cuba. Many of its chapters should be required reading for anyone studying not just Cuba, but also the politics of sexuality in developing countries. This is a path-breaking book. It offers wonderful tips on how to combine oral histories with archival knowledge. It uses socio-anthropological evidence to document sexual and gender behaviours that both conform and defy existing theories. – Javier Corrales, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies

A welcome and important contribution to the fields of Caribbean studies and sexuality studies. —Signs

A well-researched, well written and highly readable addition to the field of contemporary Cuban studies. —Bulletin of Spanish Studies

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Oral history at its best, the first in-depth study unveiling the role of women in Basque radical nationalism. – Jesus Casquete, University of the Basque Country

Women and ETA is a great contribution to gender and political violence studies. (…) this book is not only worthy of scholarly reflection, but could also be useful for those with interest in the Basque society and those actively working in the peace process. – Ana Varela-Rey, University of Barcelona

This book is a significant contribution to the study of nationalisms, political violence and gender history. Hamilton uses neither femininity, nor nationalism, nor identities, nor political violence as absolute categories, carriers of inalterable essences. She constantly endeavours to place these concepts in time and analyse their changing meaning. (…) Carrie Hamilton demonstrates in this book that she is more concerned with understanding than with judging, without that involving her in any type of political or moral tolerance towards the armed struggle and its dramatic consequences. – Nerea Aresti, University of the Basque Country

Selected Academic Articles and Chapters

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2012 Sex, “Silence,” and Audiotape: Listening for Female Same-Sex Desire in Cuba in Nan Alamilla Boyd and Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, eds., Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reprinted in Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson, eds., The Oral History Reader, 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 2016.

2010 Activist Memories, Trauma and the Pleasures of Politics in Richard Crownshaw, Jane Kilby and Antony Rowland, eds., The Future of Memory, Oxford: Bergahn Books.

2010 Moving Feelings: Nationalism, Feminism and the Emotions of Politics Oral History 38, 2, pp. 85-94.

2009 Feminist Testimony in the Internet Age: Sex Work, Blogging and the Politics of Witnessing Journal of Romance Studies 9, 3.

2008 On Being a “Good” Interviewer: Empathy, Ethics and the Politics of Oral History Oral History 36/2.

2008 Happy Memories New Formations 63.

2007 The Gender Politics of Political Violence: Women Armed Activists in ETA Feminist Review 86.

For a complete list of my academic publications, please see my academia.edu page.