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Revolution within the revolution : women and gender politics in Cuba, 1952-1962 /

"A handful of celebrated photographs show armed, fatigues-clad female Cuban insurgents alongside their compañeros in Cuba's remote mountains during the revolutionary struggle. However, the story of women's part in the struggle's success only now receives comprehensive considerati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chase, Michelle (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Series:Envisioning Cuba.
Subjects:
Women > Cuba > History > 20th century.
Cuba > History > Revolution, 1959 > Participation, Female.
Women > Cuba > Social conditions > 20th century.
Women's rights > Cuba.
Revolution (Cuba : 1959)
Military participation > Female.
Women.
Women > Social conditions.
Women's rights.
Cuba.
1900-1999
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Dead cities and other forms of protest, 1952-1955
  • The domestication of violence, 1955-1958
  • Maternalism and the moral authority of revolution, 1956-1958
  • The new woman and the old Left, 1959-1960
  • From the consumer's revolution to the economic war, 1959-1962
  • The destruction and salvation of the Cuban family, 1959-1962.