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Cuban Women Now
Spanish
336 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1978
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Margaret Randall
192 books64 followersMargaret Randall is a feminist poet, writer, photographer and social activist. She has lived for extended periods in Albuquerque, New York, Seville, Mexico City, Havana, and Managua. Shorter stays in Peru and North Vietnam were also formative. In the turbulent 1960s she co-founded and co-edited EL CORNO EMPLUMADO / THE PLUMED HORN, a bilingual literary journal which for eight years published some of the most dynamic and meaningful writing of an era. From 1984 through 1994 she taught at a number of U.S. universities.
Margaret was privileged to live among New York’s abstract expressionists in the 1950s and early ’60s, participate in the Mexican student movement of 1968, share important years of the Cuban revolution (1969-1980), the first four years of Nicaragua’s Sandinista project (1980-1984), and visit North Vietnam during the heroic last months of the U.S. American war in that country (1974). Her four children—Gregory, Sarah, Ximena and Ana—have given her ten grandchildren: Lia, Martin, Daniel, Richi, Sebastian, Juan, Luis Rodrigo, Mariana, Eli, and Tolo. She has lived with her life companion, the painter and teacher Barbara Byers, for almost a quarter century.
Margaret was privileged to live among New York’s abstract expressionists in the 1950s and early ’60s, participate in the Mexican student movement of 1968, share important years of the Cuban revolution (1969-1980), the first four years of Nicaragua’s Sandinista project (1980-1984), and visit North Vietnam during the heroic last months of the U.S. American war in that country (1974). Her four children—Gregory, Sarah, Ximena and Ana—have given her ten grandchildren: Lia, Martin, Daniel, Richi, Sebastian, Juan, Luis Rodrigo, Mariana, Eli, and Tolo. She has lived with her life companion, the painter and teacher Barbara Byers, for almost a quarter century.
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April 2, 2024
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March 16, 2023
My first book about Cuban Women: interviews with women from all areas of life, from those in leadership positions to young women, factory and farmworkers, ex-maids and prostitutes, and veterans of Cuba’s war of liberation.
This is a stunning collection of interviews with women from every cross-section of Cuban society. It paints a vivid picture of the socialist construction of revolutionary cuba, and how it intersects with all classes. They highlight the advances gained by women through economic independence and the changing social attitudes that followed women being fully incorporated into the revolution. Randall highlights truly amazing women, whose dedication to socialist construction leaps off the page. For Cuban women, unlike capitalist feminism, empowerment is not a destination, but a vehicle for liberation.
This is a stunning collection of interviews with women from every cross-section of Cuban society. It paints a vivid picture of the socialist construction of revolutionary cuba, and how it intersects with all classes. They highlight the advances gained by women through economic independence and the changing social attitudes that followed women being fully incorporated into the revolution. Randall highlights truly amazing women, whose dedication to socialist construction leaps off the page. For Cuban women, unlike capitalist feminism, empowerment is not a destination, but a vehicle for liberation.
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