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Revolution within the Revolution: Women and Gender Politics in Cuba, 1952-1962 (Envisioning Cuba)

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A handful of celebrated photographs show armed female Cuban insurgents alongside their companeros in Cuba’s remote mountains all over the revolutionary struggle. Alternatively, the story of women’s part in the struggle’s success has only now received comprehensive consideration in Michelle Chase’s history of women and gender politics in revolutionary Cuba. Restoring to history women’s participation in the all-necessary urban rebellion, and resisting Fidel Castro’s triumphant claim that women’s emancipation was once handed to them as a “revolution throughout the revolution,” Chase’s work demonstrates that women’s activism and leadership was once critical at each and every stage of the revolutionary process.

Tracing changes in political attitudes alongside evolving gender ideologies in the years leading as much as the revolution, Chase describes how insurrectionists mobilized familiar gendered notions, such as masculine honor and maternal sacrifice, in ways that strengthened the coalition against Fulgencio Batista. But, after 1959, the mobilization of women and the societal transformations that brought more women and young people into the political process opened the revolutionary platform to an increasing number of urgent demands for women’s rights. In many cases, Chase shows, the revolutionary government was once simply formalizing popular initiatives already in motion at the ground thanks to women with a more radical vision of their rights.

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