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

Bayard De Volo, Lorraine

 
9781316630846: Women and the Cuban Insurrection: How Gender Shaped Castro's Victory
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1316630846 ISBN 13 : 9781316630846
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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).

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1316630846
ISBN 13 
9781316630846
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
284
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9781107178021: Women and the Cuban Insurrection: How Gender Shaped Castro's Victory

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ISBN 10 :  1107178029 ISBN 13 :  9781107178021
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2018
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