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Before the revolution, most Cuban women were mothers, domestics, and prostitutes. After the revolution, most women are mothers homemakers and workers.
For Gad: flesh and blood, ideas and soul.
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Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak, “Feminism and Critical Theory” In other Worlds: Essays In Cultural Politics (New York and London: Methuen, 1987), p. 82.
Teresa de Lauretis, “Feminist Studies/Critical Studies: Issues, Terms and Contexts,” Teresa de Lauretis ed., Feminist Studies/Critical Studies (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986), p. 14.
Sally Quinn, “Vilma Espín: First Lady of the Revolution,” The Washington Post, March 26, 1977, pp. BI, B3. Quoted by Max Azicri, “Women’s Development through Revolutionary Mobilization,” Irving Louis Horowitz ed., Cuban Communism, Sixth Edition (New Brunswick [USA] and Oxford [UK]: Transaction Books, 1987), p. 36.
The three level model of the body politic is appropriated from John O’Neill, Five Bodies: The Human Shape of Modern Society, (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1985) p. 80. The application is mine as is the meaning inscribed on the libidinal body.
Margaret Randall, Women in Cuba: Twenty Years Later (New York: Smyrna Press, 1986), p. 78.
Germaine Greer, “Women and Power in Cuba,” The Mad Woman’s Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings 1968–1985 (Picador: Pan Books Ltd., 1986), p. 271.
Ibid., p. 271.
Fidel Castro, “Thesis: On The Full Exercise of Women’s Equality,” Elizabeth Stone ed., Women and the Cuban Revolution: Speeches, Documents by Fidel Castro, Vilma Espin and Others (New York: Pathfinder Press, 1981), p. 60.
Isabel Larguia and John Dumoulin, “Women’s Equality and the Cuban Revolution,” June Nash and Helen Safa eds., Women and Change in Latin America (Massachusetts: Bergin and Garvey Publishers Inc., 1986).
O. Carolle Bengelsdorf, “On the Problem of Studying Women in Cuba,” Race and Class, XXVII, 2, 1985.
Fidel Castro, “The Struggle for Women’s Equality,” in Stone, p. 68.
Bengelsdorf, “On the Problem of Studying Women in Cuba,” p. 44.
Ibid.
Federation of Cuban Women, Women: A Revolution Within the Revolution (Ciudad de Ia Habana: ORBE Publishing House, 1982), p. 53.
Fidel Castro, “The Struggle for Women’s Equality,” in Stone, p. 71.
Alfred Padula and Lois Smith, “Women in Socialist Cuba, 1959–1984,” Saalor Halebsky and John M. Kirk eds., Cuba: Twenty Five Years of Revolution, 1959 to 1984 (New York, Westport, CT, London: Praeger Publishers, 1985), p. 90.
Fidel Castro, speech on 8 March 1985, quoted by Peter Marshall, Cuba Libre: Breaking the Chains (London, Sydney, Wellington: Unwin Hyman Ltd., 1988), pp. 173–174.
Fidel Castro, “Thesis: On the Full Exercise of Women’s Equality,” in Stone, p. 71.
Margaret Randall, Women in Cuba, p. 42.
Germaine Greer, “Women and Power in Cuba,” p. 257.
Ibid., p. 258.
Jessica Benjamin, “A Desire of One’s Own: Psychoanalytic Feminism and Intersubjective Space.” in Teresa de Lauretis ed., Feminist Studies/Critical Studies, p. 83.
Luis Salas, Social Control and Deviance in Cuba (New York: Praeger 1979), p. 99.
Margaret Randall, Cuban Women Now (Toronto: Women’s Press, 1974), p. 243.
Robert Collier, “How Cuba Places AIDS Patients in Quarantine,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 25, 1989, A17.
Dr. Ronald Bayer, an AIDS specialist at Columbia University, and his colleagues, in their New England Journal of Medicine article use numerical models to suggest that between 21 and 53 persons at Villa Los Cocos may have been inaccurately considered positive as a result of testing. [Cited by Robert Collier.]
Lourdes Arguelles and Ruby B. Rich, “Homosexuality, Homophobia, and Revolution: Notes Toward an Understanding of the Cuban lesbian and Gay Male Experience, Part I,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 9, no. 4, (1984), p. 696.
Germaine Greer, “Women and Power in Cuba,” p. 256.
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Bell, S. (1998). The Political-Libidinal Economy of the Socialist Female Body: Flesh and Blood, Work and Ideas. In: Diamond, M.J. (eds) Women and Revolution: Global Expressions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9072-3_16
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