Women in Cuba : the making of a revolution within the revolution /

Women in Cuba : the making of a revolution within the revolution /

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Author / Creator:	Espín Guillois, Vilma, 1930-2007
Edition:	1st ed.
Imprint:	New York : Pathfinder, c2012.
Description:	346 p., [36] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Espín Guillois, Vilma, -- 1930-2007 Federación de Mujeres Cubanas. Revolution (Cuba : 1959) Women -- Cuba. Women revolutionaries -- Cuba. Military participation -- Female. Women -- Political activity. Women revolutionaries. Women -- Social conditions. Cuba -- History -- Revolution, 1959. Cuba. Anecdotes. History. Interviews.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8839868

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Other authors / contributors:	Santos Tamayo, Asela de los. Ferrer, Yolanda, 1946- Waters, Mary-Alice, 1942-
ISBN:	9781604880366 (pbk.) 1604880368 (pbk.)
Notes:	Collection of four interviews by different journalists with Vilma Espín, Asela de los Santos and Yolanda Ferrer from 1975-2008 and Military Order No. 50 establishing Department of Education in Second Front, Nov. 2, 1958. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	The social revolution that in 1959 brought down the bloody Batista dictatorship began in the streets of cities like Santiago de Cuba and the Rebel Army's liberated mountain zones of eastern Cuba. The unprecedented integration of women in the ranks and leadership of this struggle was a true measure of the revolutionary course it has followed to this day. Here, in firsthand accounts by women who helped make it, is the story of that revolution--and 'the revolution within.-- Publisher information.

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Summary:	In Women in Cuba: The Making of a Revolution Within the Revolution, Vilma Espín, Asela de los Santos, and Yolanda Ferrer recount how, in 1958, workers and peasants in the area of the Sierra Maestra mountains in eastern Cuba controlled by the Rebel Army's Second Front column established new social relations and began to carry through the revolution's aims. They describe the efforts of the new revolutionary government in these turbulent times to incorporate women into every aspect of Cuban life. The Cuban Women's Federation (FMC), founded in 1960 by Espín, de los Santos, and others was a central part of this effort.
Item Description:	Collection of four interviews by different journalists with Vilma Espín, Asela de los Santos and Yolanda Ferrer from 1975-2008 and Military Order No. 50 establishing Department of Education in Second Front, Nov. 2, 1958.
Physical Description:	346 p., [36] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781604880366 1604880368