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Abstract / Summary

From the beginning of the republic, Cuban historians gathered and glorified national history in speeches before an academic audience. They mostly spoke of patriots and battles, but a basic element of Cuban national identity was martyrdom. Cuban patriots fought and died for a total of fourteen years. Their form of resistance was guerrilla warfare, and soldiers relied on women to fight, spy, run guns, and nurse the wounded and ill. Women died of malnutrition in the prison camps and in prisons. They sent their children to war. The national narrative used the manner by which women sacrificed their lives and those of their family members to signify the ultimate rendering of the Cuban soul for freedom. The speeches given in academic setting 50 years after Cuba was independent from Spain retained the passion of the independence and molded images of female martyrs into the official historical record. These are only a few of those speeches delivered in the 1950s.

Field of Interest

Women and Social Movements

Author

Manuel I. Mesa Rodriguez, 1894-

Collection

Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820

Content Type

Biography

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Format

Text

Original Publication Date

1954

Page Count

26

Publication Year

1954

Publisher

Academia de la Historia de Cuba

Place Published / Released

Havana City

Subject

Women and Social Movements, History, Women and Education, Women and Rights, Mujer y Educación, Mulher e Educação, Mujer y Derechos, Direitos da Mulher, Maria Luisa Dolz, 1854-1928, Cuba, Social Reform and Political Activism, Women and Education, Socialism, Women as Teachers, Cubans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)

Topic

Socialism, Women as Teachers

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Mujer y Educación, Mulher e Educação, Mujer y Derechos, Direitos da Mulher