Women, Revolution, and Autobiographical Writing in the Twentieth Century: Writing History, Writing the Self

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Edwin Mellen Press, 2007 - Biography & Autobiography - 297 pages
This book considers issues of gender and representation through an analysis of twentieth-century female revolutionary figures from Ireland, Spain, Cuba, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. Since revolutions (and their siblings - civil wars) occasion social transformation under often chaotic conditions, they open up space for the potential transformation of gender relations. These women's life writings illustrate gender relations in flux, expose the political symbolism of the strong woman at moments of nation formation and transformation, and display the multiple ways that gender enters into literary, historical, and visual narratives.

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Irish Revolutionaries
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Chapter Two Dolores Ibárruri and the Spanish Civil
87
Haydée Santamaría
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