Women and the Cuban Insurrection - How Gender Shaped Castro''s Victory

Reveals the centrality of women rebels to Fidel Castro's Cuban insurrection in the 1950s.

List of contents

1. Revolution retold: what a gender lens tells us about the Cuban insurrection; 2. 'How can men tire when women are tireless': women rebels before Moncada; 3. A movement is born: military defeat and political victory at Moncada; 4. Abeyance and resurgence: sustaining rebellion in prison and exile; 5. Gendered rebels: barriers and privileges; 6. War stories celebrated and silenced: tactical femininity, bombing, and sexual assault in the urban underground; 7. 'Stop the murders of our children': mothers and the battle for hearts and minds; 8. Gendered rebels: the Guerrilla war of ideas; 9. Women noncombatants: multiple paths and contributions; 10. Las Marianas: even the women in arms; 11. Past is prologue: victory and consolidation.

About the author

Lorraine Bayard de Volo is chair and Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Previously the director of the Latin American Studies Center at her university, her fieldwork in Cuba, Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, and the United States centers on gender and war, revolution, political and sexual violence, and social movements. She is author of Mothers of Heroes and Martyrs: Gender Identity Politics in Nicaragua, 1979–1999 (2001).

Summary

By documenting the centrality of women rebels and Castro's hearts and minds campaign, this book shatters the Cuban War story's mythology of an insurrection waged and won by bearded guerrillas alone. Rebels used gender as a tactic to protect themselves, attack enemy morale, and attract public support.

Product details

• Authors: Lorraine Bayard de Volo, Lorraine (University of Colorado B Bayard De Volo, Lorraine (University of Colorado Boulder) Bayard de Volo, Lorraine Bayard De (University of Colorado B Volo, Lorraine Bayard de (University of Colorado Boulder) Volo
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781316630846
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63084-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Cuba, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Latin America / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, c 1950 to c 1959, Gender studies: women, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls, History and Archaeology, C 1945 To C 1960