| Women and the Cuban Insurrection: How Gender Shaped Castro's Victory Contributor(s): Bayard de Volo, Lorraine (Author) |
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ISBN: 1316630846 ISBN-13: 9781316630846 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $28.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Caribbean & West Indies - Cuba - History | Revolutionary - History | Women |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 6.52" W x 9.19" (0.87 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies - Chronological Period - 1950's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Using gender analysis and focusing on previously unexamined testimonies of women rebels, political scientist Lorraine Bayard de Volo shatters the prevailing masculine narrative of the Cuban Revolution. Contrary to the Cuban War story's mythology of an insurrection single-handedly won by bearded guerrillas, Bayard de Volo shows that revolutions are not won and lost only by bullets and battlefield heroics. Focusing on women's multiple forms of participation in the insurrection, especially those that occurred off the battlefield, such as smuggling messages, hiding weapons, and distributing propaganda, Bayard de Volo explores how gender - both masculinity and femininity - were deployed as tactics in the important though largely unexamined battle for the 'hearts and minds' of the Cuban people. Drawing on extensive, rarely-examined archives including interviews and oral histories, this author offers an entirely new interpretation of one of the Cold War's most significant events. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bayard de Volo, Lorraine: - 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). |