Revolution within the Revolution: Women and Gender Politics in Cuba, 1952-1962

A handful of celebrated photographs show armed female Cuban insurgents alongside their compañeros in Cuba’s remote mountains during the revolutionary struggle. However, the story of women’s part in the struggle’s success has only now received comprehensive consideration in Michelle Chase’s history of women and gender politics in revolutionary Cuba. Restoring to history women’s participation in the all-important urban insurrection, and resisting Fidel Castro’s triumphant claim that women’s e...