Description
Tracing changes in political attitudes alongside evolving gender ideologies in the years leading up to 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 increasingly urgent demands for women's rights. In many cases, Chase shows, the revolutionary government was simply formalizing popular initiatives already in motion on the ground thanks to women with a more radical vision of their rights.
About the Author
Michelle Chase is assistant professor of history at Bloomfield College, USA.
Book Information
ISBN 9781469625003
Author Michelle Chase
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press