Sex and Revolution: Women in Socialist Cuba

by Lois M. Smith and Alfred Padula

Book Overview

The Cuban revolution attempted to make equality in every sphere the basic operating principle of society. Equality among the sexes, it postulated, would resolve the "woman issue" once and for all. Sex and Revolution: Women in Socialist Cuba is the first book-length examination of revolutionary Cuba's attempt to conceptualize, prioritize, and implement sexual equality, offering an assessment of the successes, failures, and dilemmas of that process...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195094913
• ISBN13: 9780195094916
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"