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The Revolution Question: Feminisms in El Salvador, Chile, and Cuba

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What do women do for revolutions? And what do revolutions do for women? Julie Shayne explores the roles of women in revolutionary struggles and the relationship of these movements to the emergence of feminism. Focusing upon the three very different cases of El Salvador, Chile, and Cuba, Shayne documents the roles of women in armed and unarmed political activities. She argues that women give a contribution to and participate in revolutionary movements in ways relatively distinct from men. Even if their political contributions have a tendency to be seen as less essential than those of their male comrades, the roles that women play are in reality relatively significant to the expansion of revolutionary movements. Shayne also explains how, given the convergence of political and ideological factors, feminism is continuously born in the wake of revolutionary movements. Consequently, revolutionary feminism is a struggle that addresses larger structures of political and economic inequalities. In response to extensive in-depth interviews with activists in all three countries, The Revolution Question offers new insight into the complex gender relations underlying revolutionary social movements and enables us to re-assess both the ways that women impact political struggle and the ways in which political struggle affects women.

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