Women In The Cuban Revolution

Women in Cuba tolerated years of immeasurable gender inequality in a country recognized for its antiquity of male supremacy. Cuban women yearned for gender progress since the late 1800’s, when Cuba was permitted its liberation from Spain, and again in 1930 when a new feminist movement formed itself in Cuba. (…) It was only through the radical regime instituted by Fidel Castro in 1959 that it granted honorary women revolutionists, such as Vilma Espín, and Celia Sánchez, to not only resume their support in women’s suffrage but to pursue social justice amongst Cuban men in both the community and private sphere. This thesis examines the development of the women’s movement in Revolutionary Cuba following the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista in 1959, and assesses how revolutionary women produced an innovative distinctiveness and challenged the gender binary for themselves subsequently.
Prior to 1959, immense corruption was evident amongst tourist
He elaborated on his stance by mentioning how “the phenomenon of women’s participation in the revolution was a revolution within the revolution... the revolution is occurring among the women of our country!”(2) His speech at the Presidential Palace in Havana emphasized that Cuban women were succeeding in the revolutionary development. The crowd was ecstatic to hear Castro’s feminist praise as he illuminated the efforts of women and guaranteed his spectators that there was plenty in store for Cuban women as more jobs and opportunities opened up. This movement, commenced the emancipation of women from gender discrimination in Cuba; a nation on the verge of a socialist