The most prevalent argument in Julia Sweig’s Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground is the importance that the llano played in the insurgency. The book also attempts to debunk the myth’s surrounding Che, Castro, and the sierra-llano conflict. Through her never before seen evidence, we get a new look into the essential role that these revolutionary women played in the leadership of the Sierra Maestra alongside Castro, as well as in the urban underground. (Add more info from Sweig paragraph too short.)
The first of these is an essay by a historian at the University of La Reunion, France. Here Salim Lamrani talks about how the new regime created by Fidel Castro in 1959 placed a great emphasis on making “the principal victims of the discrimination inherit in patriarchal and segregationist societies,” the basis of his reformist project. She also asserts that Cuban woman were the priority for this new regime further evident by the creation of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) in 1960. This essay explores the status of women before the revolutionaries’ win, the first and subsequent measures taken by the revolutionary …show more content…
Moya Fábregas explores patriarchal culture and the state’s gender ideology. Her article claims that post-1959 improvements in equality as well as the role that insurgent women were allowed to play in the Cuban Revolution were due to the framing of the revolutionaries. By this she means that “the revolutionary state framed its expectations of Cubans using a familiar gendered language that made possible the popular acceptance of the reconfiguration of traditional gender roles.” It later goes on to analyze the pre-1959 constructions of Cuban womanhood as well as how Castro’s regime was able to construct a new idea of women’s role in Cuban society. Here the author explores how “the traditional domestic hierarchies were affected by the incorporation of women into the
The first of these is an essay by a historian at the University of La Reunion, France. Here Salim Lamrani talks about how the new regime created by Fidel Castro in 1959 placed a great emphasis on making “the principal victims of the discrimination inherit in patriarchal and segregationist societies,” the basis of his reformist project. She also asserts that Cuban woman were the priority for this new regime further evident by the creation of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) in 1960. This essay explores the status of women before the revolutionaries’ win, the first and subsequent measures taken by the revolutionary …show more content…
Moya Fábregas explores patriarchal culture and the state’s gender ideology. Her article claims that post-1959 improvements in equality as well as the role that insurgent women were allowed to play in the Cuban Revolution were due to the framing of the revolutionaries. By this she means that “the revolutionary state framed its expectations of Cubans using a familiar gendered language that made possible the popular acceptance of the reconfiguration of traditional gender roles.” It later goes on to analyze the pre-1959 constructions of Cuban womanhood as well as how Castro’s regime was able to construct a new idea of women’s role in Cuban society. Here the author explores how “the traditional domestic hierarchies were affected by the incorporation of women into the