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What Women Want: Emancipation, Cuban Women, and the New Man Ideology

Shaffer, Alysia Leigh
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1503624189817034

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2017, Master of Arts, University of Toledo, History.
Historians often marginalize Cuban women’s contributions to the development of Cuban society throughout the 20th century. Though not as predominant as men, women fought and sacrificed for Cuban Independence. When Cuba gained independence, women were still second class citizens; however, through women’s organizations, they pushed for social change as well as challenged the government in favor of their own emancipation. Later, in the struggle against the Batista regime, despite participating as guerrillas in the Sierra Maestra and urban and underground activists, scholars sideline Cuban women in favor of their male counterparts, los barbudos— “the bearded ones.” When the Cuban Revolution succeeded in ousting Fulgencio Batista from power, women remained vocal among supporters and were drivers of change in Revolutionary Cuba. Latest historiographical trends seek to recapture the role Cuban women played in their country’s liberation as well as their own emancipation. My research posits Cuban women progressively assumed qualities which made them influential actors of nation-building as well as the embodiment of the Cuban new man. This project examines women’s changing roles from the late 1890s until 1975, and it explores women’s agency and activism.
Charles Beatty-Medina, Dr. (Advisor)
93 p.
Caribbean Studies; History; Latin American History
Cuba; Cuban Revolution; Che Guevara; Cuban New Man; Cuban women

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  • Shaffer, A. L. (2017). What Women Want: Emancipation, Cuban Women, and the New Man Ideology [Master's thesis, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1503624189817034

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Shaffer, Alysia. What Women Want: Emancipation, Cuban Women, and the New Man Ideology. 2017. University of Toledo, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1503624189817034.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Shaffer, Alysia. "What Women Want: Emancipation, Cuban Women, and the New Man Ideology." Master's thesis, University of Toledo, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1503624189817034

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