Women and anarchism in Cuba. Female emancipation in the Early Twentienth Century.

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Keywords:

Women, Anarchism, Cuba, Transnationality, 20th century

Abstract

This text is focused on analyzing the voices and traces of women in Cuba through the articles published in the weekly ¡Tierra! from Havana during the first decade of the Cuban republic (1902-1915). We use texts signed by women and also men comparing their discourses related to women’s emancipation. In addition to social and political history, we use transnational history and gender perspective to trace those anarchist women militants and their internationalist dimension, enhancing the role women anarchists also played in the fights for women’s situation. The anarchist newspapers and the autobiographical evidences are our main base that’s why we use the content analysis method as well which helps us to highlight their quantitative and also symbolic dimensions.

Author Biography

Amparo Sánchez Cobos, Universitat Jaume I

Titular Professor at the Universitat Jaume I. PhD in History (UJI, 2007. Extraordinary Award). Her lines of research focus on the history of anarchism in Cuba in the first decades of the twentieth century and slavery in the nineteenth century. She is the author of CColonialismo y esclavitud según un reformista español. Cuba en Ramón de la Sagra (Premio Iberoamericano Cortes de Cádiz, 2015, Ayuntamiento de Cádiz, 2016) and embrando ideales. Anarquistas españoles en Cuba (1902-1925) (CSIC, 2008). She also edited with Steve Palmer and José A. Piqueras State of Ambiguity. Civic Life and Culture in Cuba’s First Republic (Duke University Press, 2014). She has contributed to some twenty collective works on the history of Cuba and anarchism and to international journals such as Arenal (2020), Historia y Política (2019), Caravelle (2018), ACHSC (2017), RUHM (2016), Ayer (2014), Alcores (2013), Historia Social (2007).

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Published

2024-02-09

Issue

No. 106 (2023)

Section

Dossier