The social revolution that in 1959 brought down the bloody Batista dictatorship began in the streets of cities like Santiago de Cuba and the Rebel Army's liberated mountain zones of eastern Cuba. The unprecedented integration of women in the ranks and leadership of this struggle was a true measure of the revolutionary course it has followed to this day. Here, in firsthand accounts by women who helped make it, is the story of that revolution--and "the revolution within." 
 Introduction by Mary-Alice Waters. Photo sections, maps, glossary, index.
Also Available in: Spanish

Women in Cuba: The making of a revolution within the revolution. From Santiago de Cuba and the Rebel Army, to the birth of the Federation of Cuban Women (The Cuban Revolution in World Politics)

Politics & Social Sciences

Vilma Espín

Asela de los Santos

Yolanda Ferrer

Anthropology

Pathfinder Press

The changes in women’s economic, social, and political status in Cuba since 1959 have been “a revolution within the revolution.” These gains have not been conquered simply parallel to, let alone outside, the historic struggle by Cuba’s working people, male and female, to throw off the chains of US imperialist domination and capitalist rule. To the contrary, in the words of former Cuban president Fidel Castro, the fight for women’s equality has been “a moral necessity, a revolutionary necessity” inseparably intertwined with the uncompromising battles through which Cuba’s toilers have defended their socialist course—transforming themselves in the process. 
Introduction, photos, map.
Also available in: Spanish

Women and Revolution: The Living Example of the Cuban Revolution (The Cuban Revolution in World Politics)

History

Mary-Alice Waters

Arelys Santana

Leira Sánchez

Americas

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