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

Espín Guillois, Vilma 1930-2007 (author.). Santos Tamayo, Asela de los (Added Author). Ferrer, Yolanda 1946- (author.). Waters, Mary-Alice, 1942- (author.).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781604880366 (paperback)
Physical Description: print
regular print
346 pages, 34 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Pathfinder, [2012]
Copyright: ©2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:	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.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.