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CUBAN WOMEN NOW: INTERVIEWS WITH CUBAN WOMEN. By RANDALLMARGARET. (Toronto: Canadian Women's Educational Press, 1974. Pp. 375. $5.50, paper.)

CUBAN WOMEN NOW: AFTERWORD, 1974. By RANDALLMARGARET. (Toronto: Canadian Women's Educational Press, 1974. Pp. 16. $.25.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

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Copyright © 1975 by Latin American Research Review

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1. A recent example, and a nice parallel to the Randall book, is Jane Howard's A Different Woman (New York: Avon, 1973), a series of interviews with U.S. women and a most depressing book.

2. D. José M. Gómez Colón, Memoria sobre la utilidad del trabajo de la muger pobre en la Isla de Cuba y medios para conseguirlo, Introducción de Felipe Poey (Habana: Imprenta de D. Manuel Soler y Gelada, 1857).

3. Ibid., p. 9. Italics his.

4. Ibid., p. 24.

5. Ibid., p. 39. The author went on to propose study and job training for women, and listed occupations that might be suitable: The sale of fruit, the manufacture of straw hats, the operation of commercial laundries. With some amplification, this Memoria might be seen as a blueprint for current activities.

6. Fidel Castro, Address to the Second Congress of the FMC in Havana, 29 November 1974 (Foreign Broadcast Information Service), 6: 235: Q1–15.

7. Geoffrey E. Fox, “Honor, Shame and Women's Liberation in Cuba: Views of Working-Class Émigré Men,” Female and Male in Latin America: Essays, ed. Ann Pescatello (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973).

8. Castro, Address to Second Congress (Foreign Broadcast Information Service), 6: 235: Q-9.

9. Fox, “Honor, Shame and Women's Liberation,” p. 275.

10. Ibid., p. 277.

11. Ibid., p. 280.

12. Ibid., p. 287.

13. Ibid., p. 288.

14. See the complaint of a Cuban man (artist) to Elizabeth Sutherland, The Youngest Revolution: A Personal Report on Cuba, photography by Leroy Lucas (New York: Pitman Publishing, 1969), p. 175.

15. See for example: Ernesto Cardenal, In Cuba, trans. Donald D. Walsh (New York: New Directions, 1974); “Women in Transition,” Cuba Review 4, no. 2 (September 1974); Victor Franco, The Morning After, trans. Ivan Kats and Philip Pendered (New York: Praeger, 1963); Barry Reckord, Does Fidel Eat More than Your Father? (New York: Praeger, 1971); and José Yglesias, In the Fist of the Revolution: Life in a Cuban Country Town (New York: Random House, 1968).